Space Cowboys
Aug 04, 2000 | IMDB 6.4
130 min Watch NowAction, Adventure, Thriller
Frank Corvin, ‘Hawk’ Hawkins, Jerry O'Neill and ‘Tank’ Sullivan were hotdog members of Project Daedalus, the Air Force's test program for space travel, but their hopes were dashed in 1958 with the formation of NASA and the use of trained chimps. They blackmail their way into orbit when Russia's mysterious ‘Ikon’ communications satellite's orbit begins to degrade and threatens to crash to Earth.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
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The Black Hole
Species II
Deep Impact
The Angry Red Planet
Space Raiders
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Alien³
Robinson Crusoe on Mars
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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IMDB 8 | Jul , 1986
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IMDB 6.2 | Jun , 1979
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