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Stowaway
2021 · Film · 116 min
Directed by Joe Penna
A three-person crew on a mission to Mars faces an impossible choice when an unplanned passenger jeopardizes the lives of everyone on board.
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A little off-topic - the movie Stowaway (on Netflix) is a good movie about journey to Mars.
Yep, see Netflix film Stowaway for example. Once we get Spacex Starship working, fit 2 of them with Hab modules in the nose. Launch them and connect together at the nose and spin at different rates for moon gravity (G/6) and Mars gravity G/3). Use steel cables to increase radius and reduce required spin rate.
A relatively cheap (for space) setup to get some good actual measurements.
The EVA suits continue to operate on only oxygen though, which makes sense given that internal suit pressure is a major challenge for manoeuvrability as was famously demonstrated by Alexei Leonov during the first spacewalk. This does mean that astronauts spacewalking from the ISS need to prebreath pure O2 to purge nitrogen for preventing the bends, a detail that was captured in the Netflix SciFi film Stowaway.
There have been a number of recent "mission to Mars" movie all with the same basic plot - a critical system breaks on the long voyage, and they're all gonna die. There's never a backup system for the critical one, no repair parts, either.
It's always either the air recycling system or the water one.
"Stowaway" is the latest in this genre. There, a suitcase size device breaks in this massive spaceship. No backup. Can't fix it. All gonna die.
It's crazy to design a long term deep space ship like that.
For those that haven't seen the video, he consulted on the Netflix film 'Stowaway' (that comes out later this month). He whipped up a design for the proposed spacecraft in a few minutes to help the directors visualize it better.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCwXJMVVdck