Space Station 3D

Theatrical release poster

Directed by| Toni Myers
Produced by| Toni Myers
Written by| Toni Myers
Narrated by| Tom Cruise
Music by| Micky Erbe
Maribeth Solomon
Cinematography| James Neihouse
Edited by| Toni Myers
Distributed by| IMAX Corporation

Release date

* April 19, 2002 (2002-04-19)

Running time

| 47 minutes[1]
Country| Canada
United States
Language| English
Budget| $1 million[2]
Box office| $127.6 million[3]

Space Station 3D (simply known as Space Station in 2D format) is a 2002 3D short documentary film about the International Space Station written, produced, edited and directed by Toni Myers.[4] Narrated by Tom Cruise, it is the first IMAX 3D production filmed in space.

## Contents

* 1 Content
* 2 Release
* 3 Reception
* 4 See also
* 5 References
* 6 External links

## Content

Space Station 3D was the first 3D live-action film to be shot in space. Using advanced 3D technology, the film tells the story of the greatest engineering feat since men landed on the Moon; the on-orbit assembly of the International Space Station as it travels 220 miles above the Earth at 17,500 mph. The film included sequences that portray the force of a rocket launch, look into the depths of space, experience life in zero gravity and accompany astronauts on a space walk."[5]

## Release

The film is the highest-grossing film never to have placed in the top 10 domestic box office, grossing $93,376,342 domestically and $34,971,266 overseas for a total worldwide gross of $128,347,608.[6]

## Reception

Space Station 3D has received positive reviews. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 87%, based on 23 reviews, with an average rating of 6.93/10.[7] Metacritic gives the film a score of 69 out of 100, based on 13 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[8]

## See also

* List of films featuring space stations
* List of highest-grossing documentary films

## References

1. ↑ "SPACE STATION (U)". British Board of Film Classification. 2002-04-25. http://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/space-station-2002-0. Retrieved 2013-06-13.
2. ↑ "Archived copy". http://www.moviemoney.com/newsletter/SEPTEMBER2015NEWSLETTER.pdf.
3. ↑ Space Station 3D at Box Office Mojo Retrieved June 7, 2015
4. ↑ "Space Station". http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/space_station/.
5. ↑ "Space Station 3D IMAX Cinema London - Science Museum". http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/events/imax_films/space_station_3d.aspx.
6. ↑ "Top Grossing Movies That Never Hit the Top 10 at the Box Office". Box Office Mojo. Amazon.com. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/domestic/never1.htm?page=never10&p=.htm. Retrieved 2015-06-07.
7. ↑ "Space Station (2002)". Rotten Tomatoes. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/space_station/. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
8. ↑ "Space Station 3D Reviews". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. http://www.metacritic.com/movie/space-station-3d. Retrieved August 4, 2015.

## External links

* Official website
* Space Station on IMDb
* Space Station at Box Office Mojo
* Space Station at Rotten Tomatoes
* {{Metacritic film}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.

Template:International Space Station

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Space stations and habitats

Current|

* International Space Station (ISS)

Past|

| Soviet Union
and Russia|

* Salyut
* Salyut 1
* DOS-2†
* Salyut 2† ‡
* Cosmos 557†
* Salyut 3‡
* Salyut 4
* Salyut 5‡
* Salyut 6
* Salyut 7
* Mir

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United States|

* OPS 0855°
* Skylab
* Genesis I° and II° (private, Bigelow Aerospace)

China|

* Tiangong program
* Tiangong-1
* Tiangong-2

Canceled|

| Individual projects|

* Manned Orbiting Laboratory
* Skylab B
* Galaxy
* Sundancer
* Almaz commercial
* Tiangong-3
* OPSEK

|

Incorporated into ISS|

* Space Station Freedom
* USOS
* Columbus MTFF
* Mir-2
* ROS

In development|

| China|

* Chinese large modular space station

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Private|

* Bigelow Commercial Space Station

International|

* Lunar Gateway

Concepts|

* Aurora Station
* Bernal sphere
* Bishop Ring
* Deep Space Habitat
* Exploration Gateway Platform
* Industrial Space Facility
* McKendree cylinder
* Nautilus-X
* O'Neill cylinder
* Orbital Technologies Commercial Space Station
* Rotating wheel
* Wet workshop
* Space habitat
* Stanford torus
* Skylab II (FlexCraft)
* Lunar Orbital Station

Related|

* List of space stations
* List of films featuring space stations
* Space stations and habitats in fiction
* Space Station 3D (2002 documentary)
* A Beautiful Planet (2016 documentary)

Notes: † Never inhabited due to launch or on-orbit failure, ‡ Part of the Almaz military program, ° Never inhabited, lacks docking mechanism.

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