Mission to Mars (2000)

Mission to Mars

Mission to Mars, directed by Brian De Palma, was released by Touchstone Pictures in March 2000. The first crewed landing on Mars is destroyed by an unexplained event, leaving Don Cheadle's commander Luke Graham the sole survivor, and a rescue mission carrying Gary Sinise, Tim Robbins, and Connie Nielsen goes after him. De Palma shot the vacuum sequences for the silence rather than the spectacle, and the production leaned on NASA consultants for the hardware. (IMDb)

Watches

Omega Speedmaster X-33

Worn by Don Cheadle as Luke Graham. Montres de Luxe records the X-33 worn over Graham's suit, with a close-up on the watch late in the film. (Montres de Luxe) The choice is period-correct in a way film space hardware often is not: Omega had launched the titanium analog-digital X-33 at NASA's Johnson Space Center in March 1998, barely two years before release, shepherded by board member and Apollo veteran Thomas Stafford as a quartz successor to the mechanical Speedmaster Professional, with mission-elapsed-time tracking to 1,000 days and an alarm loud enough to hear through a helmet. Worn on the outside of a suit sleeve is also how the real article was used, since a wrist under a pressure garment is unreachable.

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