The year is 1985. The unmanned Soviet space station Salyut 7, which is in low Earth orbit, suddenly stops responding to commands from the Control Center. If the space station - the pride of Soviet space engineering - falls from the sky, not only will it damage the image of the country, it will also be a disaster bringing untold casualties. To investigate the failure and prevent the catastrophe, people must be sent to the station. Yet no one in history has ever attempted to dock an uncontrolled vehicle in space. To this day, this mission is considered to be the most technically challenging in the history of space exploration.
eeergo, I believe that the soldering incident in the beginning is free fantasy as well.Fun fantasy movie, but it is unfortunate that many viewers (especially in Russia) will think it is a documentary.It is as far from a truthful re-telling of events as most Hollywood fare,.. - i.e. very far.
Quote from: Oersted on 07/02/2018 01:48 pmeeergo, I believe that the soldering incident in the beginning is free fantasy as well.Fun fantasy movie, but it is unfortunate that many viewers (especially in Russia) will think it is a documentary.It is as far from a truthful re-telling of events as most Hollywood fare,.. - i.e. very far.The welding incident isn't "pure fantasy", as there was a welding experiment performed on one of the earlier expeditions to Salyut 7 by Svetlana Savitskaya (the 1st historical female EVA). But I could not find any information about a suit puncture during the experiment, so guessing that part was made up.