Professional Astronaut Ranks the BEST And WORST Space Movies Of All Time!

The toilet's used all the time. In fact, don't be afraid of your own pee and poop

Why is that? We take urine samples, fecal samples, you name it, we have to give it up

In honor of your new Disney Plus series Among the Stars, which chronicles your final mission to space

we're going to show you a few ranker lists all around space, and we're going to see if you think the public nailed these lists, or if they need a bit of a re-ranking

Sounds fun. This first ranking is the best movie set in outer space

Number 10, Star Wars, Return of the Jedi, Serenity, Predator, The Abyss, The Fifth Element, Empire Strikes Back, A New Hope, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 2001, A Space Odyssey, and Apollo 13

Do these feel like movies that you thought would be there? For the most part, but it's missing a couple

There's a Matthew McConaughey one, Interstellar. It's missing The Martian. That movie was amazing

It got so many details exactly right. The only thing that I rolled my eyes a little bit was he pokes a hole in his spacesuit to thrust him to get off Mars

Imagine blowing up a balloon and releasing it and trying to make the balloon go straight

You know, you're just not going to control the direction. Does this look like a good ordering of these 10 to you

Number one is absolutely my favorite as well. 2001 is a classic, so I'd probably hang tough there

Three and beyond, I could do some reworking. I'm not a Star Wars enough buck to differentiate four, five and ten

So I'd probably plop all those guys right together. We'll just put them in order of release then

Yeah. Are there any of these that you think we should put in the ten slot? Predator. I wouldn't even really consider that a space movie

It's funny you should say that. I was wondering the same thing. It's an exciting movie, but it's more like a scary sci-fi one

It can't just be a science fiction movie and lump it into space category. It got to be a space movie And when I think of space movies I think more about people wearing spacesuits and having to walk on a surface of a planet or oh my God will the heroes survive

this re-entry to the atmosphere? Or like gravity, they're on the space station

and that kind of thing. I don't remember Serenity. I'm pretty sure I've seen it

Fifth Element, I know I have not seen. Number three, Close Encounters of the Third Kind

That's a classic too. Slide it in between The Abyss and 2001

I like it. I like that movie a lot. And how does this list look to you

Given the data we have in front of us, this list is locked. Okay, so that is the new re-ranked list by Captain Chris Cassidy

So now we're going to switch things up. Here's a list of the best songs about outer space, again, as voted by the public

At number 10, A Sky Full of Stars by Coldplay. Walking on the Moon, The Police

The Planets, Gustav Holtz. Space Monkey by Placebo. We Are All Made of Star by Moby

Across the Universe by The Beatles. Fly Me to the Moon by Frank Sinatra

Starman, David Bowie Rocketman, Elton John and number one Space Oddity by David Bowie

When you're in space do you guys listen to music? Oh yeah there's tons of recorded music up there

there's an international flavor to it as well each country's astronauts bring their songs from their home country

So does this look like a good ranking to you? Did they get most of the songs that you would have thought would be on this list

My number one's The Rocketman and that's on the list and number two, Frank Sinatra, Fly Me to the Moon

There's a song that I like a lot. It's called Starboy. He sang at halftime at the Super Bowl

The Weeknd. Yeah, number three, Starboy by The Weeknd. So what are we going to remove

Because if we're going to put one in, we've got to take one out. I've never heard of We're All Made of Stars by Moby

I don't know that. Just by nature of not knowing it, it's gone. What are you putting at the bottom of your list

I'll stick with A Sky Full of Stars by Coldplay. And what are we doing for four through nine

Do Space Oddity by Bowie and Starman by Bowie We keep him four and five I like Across the Universe by The Beatles Walking on the Moon by The Police

Okay, two slots left. Keep it the order of space monkeys and the planets. So this is your new ranking

It's even got a new edition. How does this look to you? It looks good. I'd like it

I gotta ask quickly, how many times have you been to space? Three. A little over a year of my life total

There seems to be a lot more people going to space than ever before. So I want you to put together your top five pieces of advice for anyone who might even be thinking about going to outer space

Take photography lessons. The object that you look out and see, the Earth, has many things that are beautiful to take photos of

Plus, you want photos of yourself in space. You've got bright lights coming in from the window, dark backgrounds, and it's a challenging light environment

And you need to have a little bit of knowledge on how to deal with all that. We use really nice professional grade cameras with a whole range of lenses, extra lighting sources, and you name it, we've got it up there

Be comfortable being a plumber and an electrician because you do a lot of both of those things

Every piece of equipment has some sort of power to it, some sort of data connection to it

And then depending on what it is, some type of plumbing, whether bringing in fluid or plumbing to bring in some kind of gas

and you're always chasing down connections and leaks and whatever. So you got to be comfortable doing all that stuff

And the toilet is the number one violator of all these things. Toilet's used all the time

In fact, don't be afraid of your own pee and poop. That's number three

Be comfortable with all bodily fluids because blood is another thing. You have to take your own blood all the time

And some people are a little freaked out about that. There's lots of experiments going up there

And a lot of the subject of this pyramid is us. So we take urine samples, fecal samples

and blood samples, saliva samples, clips of hair. I mean you name it we have to give it up And you just kind of have to get used to being comfortable doing all of those things The more you know What are some others Understand that you are drinking yesterday coffee Is that literal Our water processing system you pee into the toilet and it processes

that urine and turns it back into pure drinking water. Same with sweaty t-shirts. We dry them out

in the air and moisture gets all captured and returned into the drinking water system. So we

joke around that the water you're drinking today was yesterday's coffee. And number five is

appreciate how lucky you are for being there. I think it's roughly around 600 human beings ever

have been to space, some number like that. So it's not a lot of people. I think that with the

commercialization of space in 10, 20, 30 years, that number will grow a lot faster than it has

over the past 50 years. It's a privilege to look out the window at Earth and it's a privilege to

be there and have that responsibility and just appreciate it. Do most people who get to go to

space get to go multiple times, or is that a rarity for someone to get to go to space three

times like you did? Most people go at least twice. Some people travel one time and life event happens

or medical issue and they become not qualified any longer. But if you get selected as a NASA

astronaut and you remain healthy, which is largely out of your control, you pretty much have the

opportunity to go multiple times. Thank you so much for helping us re-rank our list today

as well as add a new list to the Rinker Library. But before you go, can you give us a little insight

into what it meant to have your final mission into space documented by Disney Plus

What really excited me was that people would see the whole process

of what it takes to pull a space mission off safely and successfully. Not just from the crew training, the crew riding the rocket or the spacewalk

but the whole team, the Mission Control Center, the trainers that in Paris and all of the different countries

the engineers that build and design and repair the equipment, All of that is a team effort, and the documentary does a fantastic job of showing all of those stories and weaving it into the bigger picture