The weightlessness of space was another of the movie’s convincing factors ... that it reportedly prompted a certain Buzz Aldrin to contact NASA to inquire which archived footage had been ...

But more unexpected is the sheer number of movies which spend the majority of their runtimes on the least eventful element of space travel: simply drifting through the dark, star-speckled void.

In 1989, Russian Space Probe Phobos 2 photographed a UFO on the surface of Mars just prior to losing contact. Scientists have determined that the craft was real and of a thin elliptical shape over ...