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Oxygen | Nasa
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Best Effects Special Visual Effects | 1970
Best Dramatic Presentation | 1970 | John
There is no musical score for this film. Instead, each spacecraft has its own ambient soundtrack when it is shown in space. The Apollo shots feature a low hum; the XRV, a hollow ringing; the Nimbus Weather Satellite, a rapid series of beeps ascending in pitch; and the Russian Voshkhod, a constant pitch series of beeps. The only exceptions to this is are a very slight, muted bit of music played under the Apollo ambient soundtrack during Pruett's final EVA, and a single tone (with some ambient effects that could be called music) during the opening credits.
Frank Capra began work on the film. Inspired by his work on the Martin-Marietta Corp.-commissioned faux documentary, "Rendezvous in Space" for the 1964 World's Fair in New York, Capra (a chemical engineer by education) worked to make the picture for Columbia, but finally abandoned the project in preproduction in May 1966 when he couldn't bring the budget down to the $3-million required by Columbia worldwide production chief M.J. Frankovich. The eventual budget for the finished film (directed by John Sturges) was $8 million. Capra never made another film.
The Film Ventures International re-edit of this film (retitled "Space Travelers") was featured on an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1988). This was also the only film featured on the show to have won an Academy Award.
In the film, the astronauts are seen using what appears to be the early concept of the Manned Maneuvering Unit - during the real-life Skylab missions, the Astronaut Maneuvering Unit (the AMU) was tested inside the space station and never tested in the vacuum of space. The first use of the MMU was during STS-41-B (the fourth flight of the Challenger) on February 7, 1984.
Final film of Nancy Kovack.
"Jim Pruett: Okay Buzz you're right. To hell with waiting for a bunch of slide-rule jockeys. We used to fix the airplanes we flew with paperclips. Lets get into our hard suits and fix this bird. Buzz Lloyd: [smiling] Okay Jimmy."
"Charles Keith: Jim... how do you uh... how do you evaluate... the oxygen situation? Jim Pruett: Um... Well, we have whatever oxygen's left in the spacecraft system. And, there are only, uh... two bottles of emergency oxygen on board, five minutes each, that's uh... ten man-minutes. Um... my backpack, and uh... Lloyd's and Stone's, but um... there's not much oxygen left in them. Charles Keith: Well, you'll have to save your backpacks for the EVA transfer Jim Pruett: Yeah I know that. [pause] Jim Pruett: 55 minutes, [longer pause] Jim Pruett: we'll be dead by then. Charles Keith: Well, only if you... continue to use oxygen at the present rate... Jim Pruett: Well, uh, we can't cut down. Charles Keith: Let's... think about that... Jim Pruett: Do, uh... do you want us to lower the partial pressure again? Charles Keith: No, we've examined that, it won't work... Jim Pruett: Well we're lyin' here like corpses now... uh... what else can we do? Charles Keith: You must... think... [astronauts exchange glances, realizing the unspoken implication of Keith's statement] Jim Pruett: Yeah, we're... thinkin'... Charles Keith: Are we talking about the same thing? Jim Pruett: Yeah. Charles Keith: Why don't you... talk it over. If you could... work out something... it would be of great help... Jim Pruett: Yeah we'll talk it over. Charles Keith: I must point out Jim, that any *effective* action must be taken immediately... Jim Pruett: Look, don't tell me what to do! We've been takin' your god damned orders and where the hell are we? From now on WE'RE gonna make all the decisions! Whatever we do, you're OUT OF IT! Charles Keith: Oh I uh... appreciate what you're saying Jim... and I agree with you... You're exactly right..."
