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[[caption-width-right:350:We interrupt this program to bring you ''"Film/MadMaxFuryRoad [[RecycledInSpace on the Moon]]"''.]]

''Ad Astra'' is primarily about an astronaut's journey to reunite with his father in the far reaches of the Solar System and it's very character-driven, but that doesn't mean it doesn't pack some spectacle.
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* The film's SugarWiki/{{visual|effects of awesome}}s are as simple as they are beautiful, it's as if its imagery combined that of the decade's best astronaut films (''Film/{{Interstellar}}'', ''Film/TheMartian'' and ''Film/{{Gravity}}'' come to mind) while retaining a strong visual identity of its own.
* Roy's trip on the surface of the Moon. The [=SpaceCom=] lunar rover convoy is ambushed by {{space pirate}}s (also on lunar rovers), with the Moon's physics at play. And despite the heavy losses during the chase, Roy manages to fend them off.
* Roy getting rid of the crazy man-eating baboons by way of ExplosiveDecompression.
* Roy making his way back to the ''Cepheus'' using a metal sheet from an antenna to cross the Rings of Neptune.
** Roy recreating the end of ''Film/DarkStar''...and surviving!
* The explosion of the Lima Project SpaceStation is a [[ApocalypseWow sight to behold]].
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