orbital spaceflight theme

A spaceflight in which a spacecraft is placed on a trajectory where it could remain in space for at least one orbit.

10 total · 5 major · 5 minor

StoryLevelMotivation
movie: Gravity (2013) major Two astronauts became stranded in space on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
movie: Marooned (1969) major Three astronauts blasted off from Earth on an extended mission aboard an experimental orbital laboratory.
movie: Starflight: The Plane That Couldnt Land (1983) major The Starflight hypersonic airliner got shot out into orbit around the Earth.
movie: War of the Satellites (1958) major The United Nations was launching manned satellites into orbit around the Earth, but they kept getting destroyed after coming into contact with a mysterious space barrier.
tz1959e4x11 major Robert was supposed to orbit Earth for ten days.
movie: Earth II (1971) minor The space station Earth II was launched into orbit around Earth I.
movie: Moonraker (1979) minor The Moonraker space shuttles were used to ferry Mr. Drax and his master race members to his space station in orbit around Earth.
movie: Night of the Blood Beast (1958) minor A rocket-ship carrying astronaut John Corcoran launches and orbits the Earth, marking the United States' first manned space launch.
movie: Space Master X7 (1958) minor A team of scientists and engineers sent a rocket into orbit that returned with a dangerous fungus.
movie: Superman Returns (2006) minor The Genesis space shuttle was described as an orbital space craft.