Near Future NASA on film part 2: Design Antecedents, More Next Generation Shuttles, and Shuttle-adjacent
1. Planet of the Apes’ spaceship
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey’s Pan Am space plane
3. The Fifth Element’s passenger spaceship*
4. Event Horizon’s Lewis and Clark rescue ship
5. Red Planet’s orbiter
6. The Time Machine’s lunar orbiter
7. Avatar’s Heavy Shuttle*
* not near future but the design evolution is there
You know, it's funny. I've met you twice today. Both times, you've ended up in my arms. It's my lucky day.
Bruce Willis & Milla Jovovich in The Fifth Element (1997) dir. Luc Besson