- "Zlotze, Houston."
- ―The ISS Captain
| ISS Captain | |
| Age | Unknown |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Russian cosmonaut |
| Portrayed by | Basher Savage |
The ISS Captain was a Russian astronaut who Mission Control contacted and ordered to evacuate.
He was voiced by British voice actor, Basher Savage in Gravity.
Role in Gravity[]
During a spacewalk on the STS-157 mission with theExplorer Space Shuttle, a Russian satellite was shot down which inadvertently struck multiple other satellites and created a chain reaction of destruction in orbit. While in the middle of his Mardi Gras story, Lieutenant Matt Kowalski was suddenly interrupted by a frantic Mission Control who informed the astronauts that the satellite debris was wiping anything out in it's path which included the International Space Station and the Explorer. Mission Control contacted both the Explorer and the International Space Station, informing the cosmonaut captain on board the ISS that they need to evacuate as soon as possible.
The Captain presumably evacuated and was never seen or heard again in the film.
Trivia[]
- In the script, the ISS Captain was only described as "space station cap".
- The script never exactly explains what space station the captain works at. It could be either the ISS or the ChineseTiangong. In fact, the only way to determine that it is the ISS is because he speaks Russian (and the fact that he responded when ground control said "ISS, this is Houston"). Otherwise nothing is known about the character at all and the script tells us even less because it doesn't specify the exact station he belongs to.