Space Explorers: The ISS Experience—which takes viewers aboard the International Space Station (ISS)—is set to be released in 2020. The studio is working with the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space and Time magazine to promote space tech to the public as NASA plans to send astronauts back to the moon by 2024. (Bloomberg)

Talking point: The film is part of NASA’s move toward commercializing the ISS, something it’s long been reluctant to do. But it’s shifting priorities to more ambitious projects; to fund them, it wants to eventually give the private sector control of the ISS and its portion of space. The agency wants to send people to the moon again in hopes its success there will help with its main goal: missions to Mars. The moon mission will require significant funding from U.S. Congress, which has so far not provided the tens of billions needed. However, for the first time, public opinion is shifting: 53 per cent of people support landing an astronaut on Mars, according to a poll from Gallup, a U.S. analytics company. When the firm first asked Americans in 1969 about landing on Mars, just 39 per cent were in favour of doing so.