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• Interstellar

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  A trippy, space movie that dabbles in time travel but feels like it could actually happen at the same time.

• Gravity

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  A visually stunning movie about a team trapped in space. Slow, beautiful and suspenseful.

• Apollo 13

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  The now classic movie starring Tom Hanks about the seminal Apollo 13 space mission. A well-crafted movie based on true events.

• The Martian

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  An astronaut gets left behind on Mars. How does he survive? The story shows the day-to-day struggles of a Mars colony while keeping the suspense high.

• Solaris

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  Space can really do a number on your mental faculties. At least that happens to our main character in "Solaris" when he's sent to investigate some strange behavior.

• The Right Stuff

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  Based on the Tom Wolfe book, this movie captures what it was like to work on the space project during the Cold War.

• 2001

  a Space Odyssey

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  Hal may be one of the scariest villains of all time. And he's just a computer. On a spaceship. Yikes.

• Alien

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  A crew on a spaceship has an unexpected guest along for the ride. A masterful suspense movie.

• Moon

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  This certainly would be a nightmare scenario to wake up in space to find you are just one in a whole host of clones. Who are you really??

• Hidden Figures

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  While this movie does not take place in space, it's all about NASA in the 1960s and the group of African-American women who make the moon launch happen.