Before Tom Cruise goes to the International Space Station (ISS) to shoot the next installment of his Mission Impossible franchise in space, thousands of movies have tried to imitate life in the outer space.
Many have tried, but only a few have succeeded in recreating life in space. Here are five movies that received a thumbs-up from three real-life astronauts - Chris Hadfield, Nicole Stott, and Garrett Reisman, all retired astronauts and engineers.
According to Hadfield and Reisman, life in space is portrayed quite realistically and incredibly artistically while they both love the movie.
This film was made even before man even landed on the moon and rotated the ISS to simulate gravity. It played around the idea of creating centrifugal force, but Reisman noted the movie even got the speed right.
After returning from his first space-walk, Hadfield cannot explain what he had seen to his wife, so he said, "it's exactly as they imagined in the movie."
1. Apollo 13 (1995)
Apollo 13 was about astronauts Lovell, Haise, and Swigert, who were stranded as their spacecraft gets damaged during a moon mission. Hadfield said he had used the famous line "Houston, we have a problem" on a few occasions.
Everyone who hears the sentence immediately stops what they are doing to what the commander is saying.
Hadfield had all praises about the docudrama. "Maybe the most realistic of all the space movies," he said. The film strikingly portrayed the problem-solving process during spaceflight and even used NASA's transcripts for the dialogue in intense scenes. Reisman even regards it as a documentary even without getting all equipment into outer space.
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Written by CJ Robles
