Trivia

First feature-length fiction film shot in outer space.

The movie makers tried to make this movie the first movie to be filmed in space on the ISS before a similar SpaceX-project Untitled Tom Cruise/SpaceX Project with Tom Cruise, directed by Doug Liman was finished.

The Russian cosmonaut Sergey Krikolyov, who after his work on the ISS (he was one of the first people on the ISS) became an executive director of the Russian space agency RosKosmos, was fired from his position at RosKosmos due to his objection of filming this movie on the ISS. The official explanation was "Breaking cooperative ethics".

Gennadiy Padalka, a Russian cosmonaut who until the early 2024 spent the longest time in space by being 878 days in space (over 2 years and 4 months, that record was later broken by Oleg Kononenko with over 960 days still being in space), accused RosKosmos, the Russian space organization that was responsible for the movie, of stagnation and said that this movie is discrediting the profession of cosmonauts. Many other cosmonauts including Svetlana Savitskaya, the first woman in open space, Sergey Zhukov, Fyodor Yurchikhin, Mikhail Kornienko etc. were against such movies and that the Russian space program was interrupted in order to finance and produce it, also with the usage of government money.