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The tramp freighter continues to take on and deliver cargoes and the crew explore the nightlife of exotic space ports on worlds ranging from orderly planets to rough, lawless Wild West-style ports. As the story opens, the freighter is in the beautiful planet Fluter, settled by colonists only a thousand years ago who came from crowded concrete ...
The following films also include spacecraft that have also been called space stations by outside sources: Silent Running (1972), which features the space freighter Valley Forge [75] The Fifth Element (1997), which features the space liner Fhloston Paradise [76] WALL-E (2008), which features the generation ship Axiom [77]
Later, as the ship endures the rough passage, Drone 3 is lost, but the ship and its remaining dome emerge relatively undamaged on the other side of the rings. Lowell gives the surviving drones the names Dewey (Drone 1) and Huey (Drone 2), while the lost Drone 3 is named Louie (a nod to Disney characters Huey, Dewey, and Louie).
Passengers grossed $100 million in the United States and Canada and $203.1 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $303.1 million, against a net production budget of $110 million. [ 4 ] [ 3 ] It was the second-highest grossing original live-action Hollywood release of 2016, after La La Land .
The ship in "Breaking Strain" shares several similarities with Discovery One in the 1968 film and Clarke's 1968 novel, 2001: A Space Odyssey.Both ships have a spherical command module which is located a great distance away from the nuclear powered engines of the ship, connected by a long spine.
The Kobayashi Maru is a 1989 Star Trek science fiction novel by Julia Ecklar which centers around several characters from The Original Series marooned in space on a disabled shuttlecraft. Its title comes from the unwinnable Starfleet Academy training scenario first introduced in the 1982 movie Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
Moonrakers – Drax Industries NASA-style Space Shuttles featured in the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker [2] and in the 2012 video game 007 Legends. Orion III ("Pan Am Space Clipper") – a shuttle used to transport Dr. Heywood Floyd into space, in Arthur C. Clarke's and Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey [3]
While refuelling from freighter #1, Jet and Lemmy hear a strange wailing voice. 6 31 Oct 1955 The crew slow the ship down, and discuss where on Mars to land and the objectives of the trip. They regain contact with the strange voice, discovering it is a very confused Frank Rogers, ex-crew man of Freighter #2. 7 7 Nov 1955