A Great Space Voyage story
Three teenagers win the All-Union Children's Space Competition and after completing the special training course and go to the first ever children's flight on the Astra spacecraft.
8 total · 5 major · 3 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| child power | major | The three children faced down a series of simulated crises and in so doing proved that children could commandeer a spaceship through interstellar space. |
| interplanetary space travel | major | We are led to believe that three children went on a great voyage across the galaxy. In reality, they never really left the earth, but were inside a sophisticated simulator underground and it was really a psychological experiment designed to assay the prospects of a real children's space flight. |
| keeping secrets | major | Fedya realized from the first day that it was all an elaborate simulation, but he kept it secret for the duration of their month and a half long "voyage". |
| speculative spaceship | major | We are led to believe that three children went on a great voyage across the galaxy in the futuristic rocket ship Astra. |
| unethical psychological experimentation | major | The modern viewer cannot help but to question whether locking up three children in a fancy flights simulator and sending them on what they believed to be a perilous space voyage was very ethical. |
| childhood pranks | minor | The only adult on the ship, who was confined to sickbay after the first day, was not much amused by the children pulling the prank of taking his food. |
| mother and son | minor | There was a flashback scene in which Fedya discusses his upcoming space mission with his mother. |
| space station | minor | The children had to think on their feet to avoid a collision with an interstellar space station. |