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** For one thing, the ill-fated mission is launched on a Saturn V rocket. The rocket was grossly overpowered for a Low-Earth Orbit mission. Logically, it probably would have been launched on a Saturn IB. The mission was launched on a Saturn V probably for the RuleOfAwesome, as nothing could compare to a Saturn V launch.
** For another, the Soviet spacecraft is clearly a Vostok craft. By the time this film was released, Soyuz was the USSR's manned spacecraft, though this was probably done for the sake of drama.

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** For one thing, the ill-fated mission is launched on a Saturn V rocket. The rocket was grossly overpowered for a Low-Earth Orbit mission. Logically, it probably would have been launched on a Saturn IB. The mission was launched on a Saturn V probably for the RuleOfAwesome, as nothing could compare to a Saturn V launch.
launch. It also allowed the use of the very extensive Apollo 4 launch footage, including the very high quality images of staging from inside the booster which seemingly don't exist for the IB.
** For another, the Soviet spacecraft is clearly a Vostok craft. By the time this film was released, Soyuz was the USSR's manned spacecraft, though this was probably done for the sake of drama.(However Soyuz was on stand down in the wake of Soyuz 1 at the time the movie was being made so there might not have been much information to use to depict it. In contrast Vostok was well known from the early sixties and instantly familiar to the audience).


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* The Apollo exterior from the final space walks is visibly much smaller than the real thing, it's also painted white unlike the Metallics of the real versions. Averted with the cabin which is an excellent duplicate of the real thing as good as that in Film/Apollo13 decades later.


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* StockFootageFailure: Not the worst offender ever but during the countdown to the Saturn V launch at the start some shots clearly not only show the prep tower still in place (removed hours to days before launch) but also a Saturn test article with no payload on top.
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For the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' version (shown under the title ''Space Travelers''), please go to the [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E01SpaceTravelers episode recap page]]. It's the only movie ever riffed on [=MST3k=] to have won an Oscar (for Best Special Effects), and possibly[[note]]It's complicated - you have to factor in inflation, but also the fact that movie production costs have inflated faster than the standard rate. They also riffed some Russian, Finnish and Eastern European movies that had high local budgets, but converting to a dollar amount is tricky.[]/note]] the highest-budgeted one.

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For the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' version (shown under the title ''Space Travelers''), please go to the [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E01SpaceTravelers episode recap page]]. It's the only movie ever riffed on [=MST3k=] to have won an Oscar (for Best Special Effects), and possibly[[note]]It's complicated - you have to factor in inflation, but also the fact that movie production costs have inflated faster than the standard rate. They also riffed some Russian, Finnish and Eastern European movies that had high local budgets, but converting to a dollar amount is tricky.[]/note]] [[/note]] the highest-budgeted one.
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For the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' version (shown under the title ''Space Travelers''), please go to the [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E01SpaceTravelers episode recap page]]. It's the only movie ever riffed on [=MST3k=] to have won an Oscar (for Best Special Effects), and possibly the highest-budgeted one.

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For the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' version (shown under the title ''Space Travelers''), please go to the [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E01SpaceTravelers episode recap page]]. It's the only movie ever riffed on [=MST3k=] to have won an Oscar (for Best Special Effects), and possibly possibly[[note]]It's complicated - you have to factor in inflation, but also the fact that movie production costs have inflated faster than the standard rate. They also riffed some Russian, Finnish and Eastern European movies that had high local budgets, but converting to a dollar amount is tricky.[]/note]] the highest-budgeted one.
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For the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' version (shown under the title ''Space Travelers''), please go to the [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E01SpaceTravelers episode recap page]]. It's the only movie ever riffed on MST3k to have won an Oscar (for Best Special Effects), and possibly the highest-budgeted one.

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For the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' version (shown under the title ''Space Travelers''), please go to the [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E01SpaceTravelers episode recap page]]. It's the only movie ever riffed on MST3k [=MST3k=] to have won an Oscar (for Best Special Effects), and possibly the highest-budgeted one.
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* HopeSpot: A Soviet spacecraft arrives, but is unable to do much because it's only a one-man vessel.

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* HopeSpot: A Soviet spacecraft arrives, but is unable to do much because it's only a one-man vessel. He ''is'' able to provide enough extra oxygen for [[spoiler:the two survivors]] to make it until they can move to the rescue ship.
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* ColdEquation: See HeroicSacrifice.

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* ColdEquation: See HeroicSacrifice.The rescue ship is on its way, but the stranded astronauts don't have enough oxygen left to survive until it arrives. After running the numbers, Keith determines they can get ''two'' of the stranded men back with the sacrifice of the third. The crew of ''Ironman'' takes the choice out of Keith's hands, absolving the ground crew of responsibility, to decide themselves. [[spoiler:Although Lloyd offered first, Pruett beats him to it by going out to "repair the engine." By the time the others realize what's going on, he's already out of reach. And then rips his pressure suit for good measure.]]
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Three American astronauts (Creator/GeneHackman, Richard Crenna, and James Franciscus) returning from a long space station mission suddenly face imminent death when their spacecraft malfunctions and they are stuck in orbit with a [[AlmostOutOfOxygen very limited oxygen supply]]. On the ground, Chief astronaut Ted Dougherty (David Janssen) breaks all the rules to implement a mission to rescue the seemingly doomed adventurers. Charles Keith (Creator/GregoryPeck) is the ground commander in Houston who must decide whether or not to approve the dangerous rescue mission.

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Three American astronauts (Creator/GeneHackman, Richard Crenna, and James Franciscus) returning from a long space station mission suddenly face imminent death when their spacecraft malfunctions and they are stuck in orbit with a [[AlmostOutOfOxygen very limited oxygen supply]]. On the ground, Chief astronaut Ted Dougherty (David Janssen) (Creator/DavidJanssen) breaks all the rules to implement a mission to rescue the seemingly doomed adventurers. Charles Keith (Creator/GregoryPeck) is the ground commander in Houston who must decide whether or not to approve the dangerous rescue mission.

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* CasualDangerDialog: The astronauts' wives are instructed to speak to the men calmly, to put them at ease. One wife discusss her new shoes and the fact that she misplaced the insurance bill. Notably, the astronauts aren't buying it, but they put on brave faces (well, except for [[TheLoad Lloyd]]) for the sake of the women.



* CyanidePill: Downplayed; the astronauts have pills which act as a mild depressant, relaxing them (and keeping heart rate and respiration down) so that they will use up less oxygen. Guess what TheLoad does with his?
* DisasterMovie: Not generally marketed as one, but the film does seem like an UnbuiltTrope for TheSeventies' disaster craze. AllStarCast? Yup. Group of people trapped in a deadly ClosedCircle? You betcha. TheLoad? Right here. Death of a main character played by a major star? There he goes. Unconventional and risky rescue attempt with a MillionToOneChance, led by a CowboyCop-esque hero who says ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight? Check, check and cheque. About the only boxes this film '''doesn't''' tick off are that it has a [[EpicMovie small scale]] (only three people are endangered) and it doesn't show characters with [[RelationshipSalvagingDisaster domestic issues to work through]] (some domestic issues do crop up, but these are a case of CasualDangerDialog).
* DyingDeclarationOfLove: Pruett gives one to his wife. Notably, he's not dying, but he's covering his bases. [[spoiler:Good thing he did.]]



* HeroicSacrifice: One of the astronauts sacrifices his life to preserve enough oxygen for the other two to survive.

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Film footage of the astronauts working on the space station shows that Lloyd has been mucking up repairs and generally having a hard time focusing on his work (due to the stresses of working in space), which hints toward his eventual freak-out.
* HeroicSacrifice: One of the astronauts [[spoiler:Jim Pruett]] sacrifices his life to preserve enough oxygen for the other two to survive.


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* TheLoad / TheMillstone: Lloyd fails to take his relaxo-pill when ordered to do so; later, he has a full-blown panic attack which (presumably) wastes a good deal of their limited oxygen supply. To his credit, though, when the ColdEquation plan is discussed, he is the first to volunteer.
* RedHerring (pardon the pun): As a Soviet spacecraft approaches, the astronauts are warned to be on their guard, as they don't know what the cosmonaut will do. As it turns out, he's coming to try to help.
* TemptingFate: Early in the film, Lloyd says calmly "We'll make it." When things go pear-shaped, he's the first to crack.
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* LifeImitatesArt: And ''art'' comes out second best: ''Marooned'' hit theaters less than a year before the Apollo 13 mission, which conclusively demonstrated the many orders of magnitude by which the real American manned space program was more awesome than films like this one make it out to be.
** The truth is actually even ''more'' surprising, according to [[http://www.universetoday.com/63721/13-things-that-saved-apollo-13-part-11-a-hollywood-movie/ this article]].
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Plenty:
** For one thing, the ill-fated mission is launched on a Saturn V rocket. The rocket was grossly overpowered for a Low-Earth Orbit mission. Logically, it probably would have been launched on a Saturn IB. The mission was launched on a Saturn V probably for the RuleOfAwesome, as nothing could compare to a Saturn V launch.
** For another, the Soviet spacecraft is clearly a Vostok craft. By the time this film was released, Soyuz was the USSR's manned spacecraft, though this was probably done for the sake of drama.
*** At the same time, NASA put an awful lot of faith in the Soviet cosmonaut not to commit an act of espionage by taking mental notes of the Apollo spacecraft's interior, as such mental notes could easily be used by the Soviets to improve their own manned spacecraft. There was also lot of faith that the Soviets wouldn't send up a later manned mission to investigate and reverse-engineer the Apollo spacecraft (a la Buran).

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A 1969 sci-fi thriller film directed by John Sturges, adapted from the novel of the same name by Martin Caidin.

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A 1969 sci-fi thriller film directed by John Sturges, adapted from the novel of the same name by Martin Caidin.
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** The truth is actually even ''more'' surprising, according to [[http://www.universetoday.com/63721/13-things-that-saved-apollo-13-part-11-a-hollywood-movie/ this article]].

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** The truth is actually even ''more'' surprising, according to [[http://www.universetoday.com/63721/13-things-that-saved-apollo-13-part-11-a-hollywood-movie/ this article]].article]].
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* LifeImitatesArt: And ''art'' comes out second best: ''Marooned'' hit theaters less than a year before the Apollo 13 mission, which conclusively demonstrated the many orders of magnitude by which the real American manned space program was more awesome than films like this one make it out to be.

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* LifeImitatesArt: And ''art'' comes out second best: ''Marooned'' hit theaters less than a year before the Apollo 13 mission, which conclusively demonstrated the many orders of magnitude by which the real American manned space program was more awesome than films like this one make it out to be.be.
** The truth is actually even ''more'' surprising, according to [[http://www.universetoday.com/63721/13-things-that-saved-apollo-13-part-11-a-hollywood-movie/ this article]].
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* HopeSpot: A Soviet spacecraft arrives, but is unable to do much because it's only a one-man vessel.

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* ColdEquation: See HeroicSacrifice.



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* CreatorCameo: Martin Caidin, author of the original novel, appears as a Cape Canaveral reporter.
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A 1969 sci-fi thriller film directed by John Sturges, adapted from a novel by Martin Caidin.

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A 1969 sci-fi thriller film directed by John Sturges, adapted from a the novel of the same name by Martin Caidin.
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For the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' version (shown under the title ''Space Travellers''), please go to the [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E01SpaceTravelers episode recap page]].

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A 1969 film. Three American astronauts (Gene Hackman, Richard Crenna, and James Franciscus) returning from a long space station mission suddenly face imminent death when their spacecraft malfunctions and they are stuck in orbit with a very limited oxygen supply. On the ground, Chief astronaut Ted Dougherty (David Janssen) breaks all the rules to implement a mission to rescue the seemingly doomed adventurers. Charles Keith (Gregory Peck) is the ground commander in Houston who must decide whether or not to approve the dangerous rescue mission.

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A 1969 film. a sci-fi thriller film directed by John Sturges.

Three American astronauts (Gene Hackman, (Creator/GeneHackman, Richard Crenna, and James Franciscus) returning from a long space station mission suddenly face imminent death when their spacecraft malfunctions and they are stuck in orbit with a very limited oxygen supply. On the ground, Chief astronaut Ted Dougherty (David Janssen) breaks all the rules to implement a mission to rescue the seemingly doomed adventurers. Charles Keith (Gregory Peck) (Creator/GregoryPeck) is the ground commander in Houston who must decide whether or not to approve the dangerous rescue mission.


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A 1969 film. Three American astronauts (Gene Hackman, Richard Crenna, and James Franciscus) returning from a long space station mission suddenly face imminent death when their spacecraft malfunctions and they are stuck in orbit with a very limited oxygen supply. On the ground, Chief astronaut Ted Dougherty (David Janssen) breaks all the rules to implement a mission to rescue the seemingly doomed adventurers. Charles Keith (Gregory Peck) is the ground commander in Houston who must decide whether or not to approve the dangerous rescue mission.
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* HeroicSacrifice: One of the astronauts sacrifices his life to preserve enough oxygen for the other two to survive.
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* LifeImitatesArt: And ''art'' comes out second best: ''Marooned'' hit theaters less than a year before the Apollo 13 mission, which conclusively demonstrated the many orders of magnitude by which the real American manned space program was more awesome than films like this one make it out to be.
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Three American astronauts (Gene Hackman, Richard Crenna, and James Franciscus) returning from a long space station mission suddenly face imminent death when their spacecraft malfunctions and they are stuck in orbit with a very limited oxygen supply. On the ground, Chief astronaut Ted Dougherty (David Janssen) breaks all the rules to implement a mission to rescue the seemingly doomed adventurers. Charles Keith (Gregory Peck) is the ground commander in Houston who must decide whether or not to approve the dangerous rescue mission.

For the trope related to characters being marooned, see {{Robinsonade}}.

For the ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' version (shown under the title ''Space Travellers''), please go to the [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E01SpaceTravelers episode recap page]].

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