She’s one of the stars of Prometheus, a prequel to the 1979 film Alien, in which long space voyages are accomplished by putting the travellers to sleep in pods, only waking them when they reach ...

The medical pod in Prometheus was only for Weyland's use ... the subtext behind Vickers' question is her hope that Weyland died in his sleep and they could just quit and turn back.

Science fiction has romanticized a long, cold sleep as the best way to fuse space-time in our future adventures. In Interstellar, Prometheus, and The Fifth Element, hypersleep pods keep travelers ...

Prometheus, Passengers, 2001: A Space Odyssey to name a few). They’re not sealed in a glass pod with a serene look upon their faces as they hibernate in a deep sleep on their way to one of ...