Interstellar: 20 Easter Eggs & References You Need To See

8. That Familiar Shaped Space Station

Endurance is clearly designed to mimic the circular style of Space Station V in 2001, while production designer Nathan Crowley also admitted that he had based the ship's design on the International Space Station:

"It's a real mishmash of different kinds of technology; you need analogue stuff as well as digital stuff, you need back-up systems and tangible switches. Every inch of space is used, everything has a purpose. It's really like a submarine in space."

The Ranger portion of the ship also clearly nods to the Lambda-class T-4a shuttle from Star Wars (the cockpit externally is almost a carbon copy). And the viewing windows and docking ports look suspiciously like TIE Fighters...

The Cooper station meanwhile is clearly an O'Neill cylinder, proposed by Gerard K. O'Neill in his book The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space. Meanwhile, the building designs in the film are inspired by the works of modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and there's definitely a touch of American Gothic in the portrait of rural USA.