Which Is Your Favorite Type of Space Travel Movie?

Earth-Based Space Travel Movies These movies feature space travel, but films depict travel on or just above the planet, Earth.

[movie examples: 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind', 'The Day the Earth Stood Still', 'The Thing from Another World', 'The Wandering Earth' franchise (debatable), 'GATTACA', 'Capricorn One', 'Starman', etc.]

Earth Orbit Space Travel Movies These movies feature space travel, but films depict travel beyond the Kármán line to orbit around the Earth or to an Earth-orbiting space-station.

[movie examples: 'The Right Stuff', 'Capsule', 'Ender's Game', 'The Cloverfield Paradox', 'Life', 'I.S.S.', 'Proxima', 'Space Camp', 'Jason X', 'Elysium', etc.]

Intercelestial Space Travel Movies These movies feature space travel, but films depict travel to nearby natural celestial bodies, such as the Moon, known to some as Luna, or asteroids and meteors.

[movie examples: 'Apollo 13', 'Apollo 18', 'Countdown', 'Transformers: Dark of the Moon', 'Wallace & Gromit: A Grand Day Out', 'Moonfall', 'Armageddon', 'Deep Impact', etc.]

Interplanetary Space Travel Movies These movies feature space travel, but films depict travel to other planets within our own Copernican solar system or otherwise depict travel between two different planets within the same star system.

[movie examples: the '2001' franchise, 'Sunshine', 'Ad Astra', 'Abbott and Costello Go to Mars', 'Mission to Mars', 'Red Planet', 'Stowaway', 'Europa Report', 'Spaceman', 'Jupiter Ascending', etc.]

Interstellar Space Travel Movies These movies feature space travel, but films depict travel outside our own Copernican solar system, but still within our own Milky Way galaxy or otherwise depict travel between two different star systems within the same galaxy.

[movie examples: 'Forbidden Planet', the 'Guardians of the Galaxy' franchise, the 'Star Trek' franchise, the 'Alien' franchise, the 'Dune' franchise, the 'Star Wars' franchise, etc.]

Intergalactic Space Travel Movies These movies feature space travel, but films depict travel beyond the confines of our own Milky Way galaxy or otherwise depict travel between two different galaxies.

[movie examples: the 'Stargate' franchise, 'Contact', 'Green Lantern', 'Galaxy Quest', etc.]