Today April 12 is the world day of the travel of the man in the space . Today we also celebrate the 60th anniversary of the mission of Jurij Gagarin, the first astronaut in the world to orbit the Earth. Here are the must-see movies about the arrival (2016) space missions
A dozen of the most mysterious monoliths since “2001: A Space Odyssey” drop anchor around the globe. For this, linguist Louise Banks (Amy Adams) and physicist Ian Donnelly (Jeremy Renner) are recruited by the military to get in touch with the seven-limbed “heptapods” and find out what they want. Nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Arrival has been described as “a style lesson disguised as a blockbuster” and a “movie about aliens and space, for people who don’t like alien and alien movies. space”. Contact (1997)
Jodie Foster in the “woman on space” version.
For decades, astronomers have scanned the sky for radio signals from other civilizations. What happens when they find something
This is Contact’s tale, which sees Jodie Foster as Ellie Arroway, a radio astronomer forced from childhood to search for signals from alien worlds, although others warn her that she is throwing away a promising scientific career. When this search finds an extraterrestrial signal, it is thrust into “terrestrial” conflicts to decipher the message and use it to make contact with whoever, or whatever, sent it from the star Vega. The film is based on a novel by Carl Sagan, who modeled the story on the real life of SETI astronomer Jill Tarter. The right to count (2016)
On the world day of man in space, we cannot fail to mention this wonderful film.
This film follows the work of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughn and Mary Jackson at NASA, and highlights their vital contributions as mathematicians to bring John Glenn into space.
These three African American women, and several of their colleagues, calculated trajectories and other critical numbers for the Mercury program as they overcame segregation and sexism in the early 1960s. While not as famous as the astronauts who helped reach orbit, mathematicians gained belated notoriety thanks to the Oscar-nominated film. In the NASA headquarters, today is “Hidden Figures Way”, and whose software validation facility in West Virginia bears the name of Katherine Johnson. The Martian (2015)
An unpleasant initial event, what happens to NASA astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon) in The Martian when a massive dust storm forces his team of scientists to leave him behind on the red planet. Based on Andy Weir’s bestseller of the same name, Watney chooses to “do science” directly in space, to survive in an abandoned outpost until his rescue. Recognized for its compelling storytelling and dedication to getting its (mostly) scientific details right, The Martian was nominated for seven Oscars and listed in the American Film Institute’s Top 10 Films of 2015. Interstellar (2014)
This dystopian thriller by Christopher Nolan (Inception, The Dark Knight) stars Matthew McConaughey as an astronaut turned farmer. This is being recruited to find a new planet for a declining population. Nothing is as it seems in this not-too-distant future where humanity has turned its spaceships into plowshares, NASA has gone underground and children are taught that the Apollo moon landings have been faked. Stunning visual effects won an Oscar for this sci-fi epic praised by the notoriously fussy Neil de Grasse Tyson for his scientifically sound representation of tunnel travel, black holes and relativity in space. Apollo 13 (1995)
And finally, if we talk about space, “Houston, we have a problem” immediately comes to mind. That’s not exactly what Jim Lovell said after an explosion shook his Apollo 13 spacecraft en route to the moon in 1970 (“Houston, we had a problem,” and what he really said) but this version, spoken by Lovell ( Tom Hanks) in the film, became an instant smash that lives in the public consciousness to this day.
Aside from these dialogue inaccuracies, Apollo 13 holds tightly to the actual events of that mission as Lovell, Fred Haise (Bill Paxton) and Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon) struggle to get their lame spacecraft back to Earth with support and ingenuity. of the mission control team led by Kranz (Ed Harris, who also played John Glenn in The Right Stuff.) The gripping drama proved that while Apollo 11 may have achieved the goal of landing humans on the moon , the rescue of Apollo 13 may have been, as Kranz says in the film, NASA’s best moment.
