Moscow-Cassiopeia story

movie: MoscowCassiopeia (1974) · 1974-09-23

The radio signals of intelligent beings from a planet of the star system Shedar in the Cassiopeia constellation arrive on Earth. The film was followed by Teens in the Universe (1975).

12 total · 4 major · 8 minor

Theme	Level	Motivation
extraterrestrial civilization	major	An interstellar space voyage was organized to find the source of radio transmissions made by intelligent beings that were picked up from a planet in a star system in the Cassiopeia constellation.
interstellar space travel	major	The film followed a the teenage crew of spaceship as they prepared for and subsequently set out on a 50 year voyage to a planet in a star system in the Cassiopeia constellation.
speculative spaceship	major	The film followed a the teenage crew of spaceship as they prepared for to set out on a 50 year voyage planet in a star system in the Cassiopeia constellation.
theory of relativity	major	The story is a showcase of the time dilation aspect of special relativity. In the story, a crew of teenagers were sent on what would be a 50 year voyage to Alpha Cassiopeia as experienced in their frame of reference. Meanwhile, hundreds of years were to pass in Earth's frame of reference, meaning that everyone they'd ever known would be long dead by the time they returned from their voyage. And toward the end of the film the teens communicated with people on Earth who had aged 40 years, while they had hardly aged a day.
artificial gravity technology	minor	Artificial gravity was used aboard the spaceship to keep the teenagers from floating around too much.
endangered species	minor	A female student mentioned about how the bison in American had gone extinct.
humans in group	minor	Lob's disruptive presence aboard the ship caused tensions to rise among everyone.
magnetic boots	minor	The teens wore magnetic boots to keep from floating before the artificial gravity was turned on on the spaceship.
speed of light limitation	minor	It was mentioned how there was no known way to exceed the speed of light, but then the ship exceeded this speed after Lob carelessly sat on the controls.
universal translation device	minor	A scientist demonstrated a silver, walkman sized device that could translate any one language into that of the holder.