While the science fiction genre does have a few quiet, contemplative films, some of the most memorable sci-fi movies have ...

The USCSS Nostromo is a towing vessel owned by the Weyland-Yutani Corporation. It provides the setting for most of the 1979 Alien movie, where we get to see it landing on a moon, tugging a huge ore ...

One of the things I’ve always loved about Ridley Scott’s seminal sci-fi horror film Alien is that its protagonists are working-class. The crew of the USCSS Nostromo aren’t noble explorers, like in ...

The main plot of Alien: Earth is triggered by a Weyland-Yutani deep space vessel, the USCSS Maginot, crashing directly into a major city on Earth. In response, Prodigy Corporation dispatches Wendy ...

Ridley Scott’s 1979 horror masterpiece, Alien, featured one of the most beautiful movie spaceships of all time, the USCSS Nostromo. Unlike the massive battleships from space operas like Star Wars, the ...

Those of you who have seen the classic sci-fi film Alien know the story of the ill-fated mining Starship Nostromo, which embarked on a voyage to the far reaches of the galaxy with a crew of seven, ...