Orphans of Apollo (2008)

Directed by

Michael Potter, Becky Neiman

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

52 min

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary tells the story of a group of entrepreneurs who tried to buy and run Russia's Mir space station in the 1990s. It covers the early days of private spaceflight and the business and political obstacles they faced.

informativenostalgichopefulunderdogretrospectiveoptimisticfast-paced

What happens

Orphans of Apollo is a 2008 documentary film analyzing the embryonic private spaceflight movement of the turn of the millennium, through MirCorp's attempt to privatize and save the Mir space station. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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