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
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |