Comprehensively examines science fiction films that portray space travel realistically by having characters wear spacesuits. Beginning with the pioneering Himmelskibet (1918), it discusses other classics in this tradition, including Destination Moon (1950) and 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), innumerable films which gesture toward realism but betray that goal, the distinctive spacesuit films of Western Europe, Russia and Japan, and the televised Apollo 11 moon landing (1969).