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During one of the scenes where one of the two astronauts do an EVA (Extra Vehicular Activity or "Space Walk"), you see him floating slowly from the Pod shuttle towards the Discovery. This was filmed by hanging the pod on the cieling and lowering the actor from it with a rope towards a camera that's poining up. If you look carefully, you can see the shadow of the rope. See more...
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Stanley Kubrick, a chess fan and one of the strongest chess players in Hollywood, named the surname of chief Soviet scientist who visits the space station, after former Russian chess world-champion Vassily Smyslov. See more...
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