Space Tourists

The film shows the poor Kazakh metal collectors risking their lives in search for rocket waste that falls literally from the sky.

Christopher Campbell wrote on the official bloc of DOC: The Documentary Channel: Frei’s methods of telling these interconnected stories tied to modern spaceflight is fittingly of a revolving nature, and in the end we’re back to a beginning of sorts with a look at the training ground for the next tourists, in Star City, Russia.

There aren’t too many straight interviews in the film nor is there a lot of direct exposition, although Ansari, Bendiksen and Popescu contribute some voiceover narration to their sections.

[2]Brad Balfour of the Huffington Post emphasizes that the film brings together the two sides of the medal: Frei follows Iranian-American multimillionaire Anousheh Ansari as she undergoes ersatz cosmonaut training en route to becoming the world's first female space tourist.

[3]Ryan L. Kobrick, author from the magazine The Space Review liked the authenticity of the film: The documentary follows a group of metal salvagers on their journey to recover falling rocket stages that they fetch to sell the aluminum and titanium to China.