Films and TV shows that feel like Space Oddity by David Bowie

An astronaut's countdown and lift-off turns into serene, lonely drift as contact with Earth is lost, leaving wonder and isolation hand in hand.

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968): The film that inspired the song, with the same cold, hypnotic drift into the cosmos.
2. Gravity (2013): An astronaut cut off and tumbling alone above Earth, awe and terror in equal measure.
3. First Man (2018): The Space Race era of tin-can capsules and quiet, isolated courage leading to Apollo 11.
4. Moon (2009): A lone man in space slowly losing his grip on connection and reality.
5. Apollo 13 (1995): Ground control and a crew in a damaged capsule, with contact and survival hanging by a thread.
6. Ad Astra (2019): A melancholy, introspective astronaut journey about loneliness at the edge of the solar system.
7. The Right Stuff (1983): The early heroic Space Race, the same era and mythology Major Tom launched from.
8. For All Mankind (2019): An alternate 1960s-onward Space Race with astronauts, ground control and the human cost of reaching space.