Reentry

KerbalOrbit dramatized. Rival engineers, renamed Valentina as “Vera Kass.” Orbital mechanics approximately correct. Rooftop reconciliation that didn’t happen. Dialogue not.

KerbalX ground control through eleven consecutive landing failures and the twelfth success. No narration. No score for twenty minutes. Twelfth landing in one uncut shot from three angles.

A dramatization of MSC-002 — the failed docking, the improvised EVA, the broken airlock, and the return. Three acts: preparation and launch (tense, compressed), the docking failure and the decision to send Valentina out (the film’s best thirty minutes), and the reentry. The fictionalised mission director Orra Venn carries much of the film’s emotional weight and is its most fully drawn character.

Ammie Voss’s follow-up to Forty Seconds. Structured entirely around the contrast between EVA-001 and EVA-002 — Valentina Kerman’s improvised emergency spacewalk during MSC-002, and Huddin Kerman’s planned array deployment during RESTLESS integration. No narrator, no interviews. Built from available footage: the live broadcast of EVA-001, Huddin Kerman’s Crewgram posts and suit telemetry, mission control audio from both EVAs, and a single extended sequence of the RESTLESS arrays deploying that Voss shot herself from a ground telescope. The final shot is the two visors side by side.

A procedural drama about the docking specification failure that brought down Basic Station — told from three simultaneous perspectives: the NASA interface standards team who wrote the spec, the KerbalX engineer who signed off on the as-built port, and the internal KIA analyst who opened the monitoring file afterwards. Described in trade coverage as “a space program procedural in the mode of a legal thriller.” No explosions. No speeches. Mostly documents, arguments about tolerances, and one kerbal who knew something was wrong and didn’t say it loudly enough.

Loosely tracks MunShot Phase 1 planning — R-SLS2 heritage vs KerbalX solving onboard crew control. Not affiliated with NASA procurement; lawyers watching.

SOLARCOM network completion reframed as conspiracy procedural. Administrator played as kindly evasive. Third act argues with orbital mechanics on purpose.