Christpher Nolan screened a print of The Right Stuff (1983) for the crew before the filming started.
Production designer
Nathan Crowley based the Endurance 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. "
Production designer
Nathan Crowley described the Lander spacecraft as a "heavy Russian helicopter".
Some space sequences were shot with an IMAX camera installed in the nose cone of a Learjet.
Hoyte Van Hoytema retooled an IMAX camera to be handheld for shooting interior scenes.