Sigmund Jähn, (East) Germany's first man in space, and the preparations for the space flight are portrayed.
A lone astronaut must pull through his feelings of internal terror and weariness to accomplish an objective for an critical mission.
An astronaut comes back to earth and tries to fit in again.
It has been said that 10,000 years from now only one name will still be remembered, that of Neil Armstrong. But in the four decades since he first set foot on the moon, Armstrong has become increasingly reclusive. Andrew Smith, author of the best-selling book Moondust, journeys across America to try and discover the real Neil Armstrong. He tracks down the people who knew Armstrong, from his closest childhood friend to fellow astronauts and Houston technicians, and even the barber who sold his hair, in a wry and sideways look at the reluctant hero of the greatest event of the 20th century.
A tense spaceship captain and co-pilot set out to investigate a comet, when a technical fault cuts to the core of their relationship problem...
When Death's door is only a few breaths away, how would you choose to spend your last moments? A stranded astronaut and his dog embark on one last adventure together through space. This is a story not about the end but about the journey one takes to get there.
John Frum, Messiah of Polynesian Cargo Cults, returns as an astronaut and businessman to the postindustrial wasteland of the financial-service-economy. Embarking on a "conquest of the useless" things get confused and what begins as a journey becomes a trip beyond the boundaries of so called logic and meaning. Realised in beautifully crafted animation and innovatively rendered background art, the telling of this story is thick with atmosphere and celebrates a renaissance of the unconscious freed from the technocratic shackles of our times.
Archibald, an astronaut painter is on a mission to paint his magnum opus, the solar system. Driven by obsession, he is faced with his final piece, which will guide him to his doom, The Sun.
One train journey between two stations: the first one and the last one. In a second class compartment, a traveler meets all kinds of people with all kinds of fates but fails to find a friend. As alone as at the beginning of the journey, he takes his suitcase, gets off the train, and disappears in the night.
A collection of NASA films, from Project Mercury to the Space Shuttle.
as the sole survivor of an unsuccessful colony mission to the stars, ARTHUR TARP recounts the harrowing deeds he's done in the name of survival.
Two shipwrecked astronauts struggle over how to get rescued from an alien desert.
A girl gets lost in her inescapable nightmare as she is chased by the embodiment of her fears
An animated short film about an astronaut lost in outer space.
The artist Tom Sachs and his team of bricoleurs build a handmade space program and send two female astronauts to Mars