"Nebo Zovyot" was released two years after the launch of the first artificial satellite "Sputnik 1" and two years before the first manned flight into space by Yuri Gagarin. Stanley Kubrik's 1968 film "" used drawings and graphics solutions from "Nebo Zovyot" created by the fiction artist Yuri Shvets. "Nebo Zovyot" was re-released in Germany as "Der Himmel ruft" on June 15, 2009. Furthermore, the film was officially translated into Hungarian and Italian. In the film the fictional Soviet spaceship "Rodina" (, "Motherland") landed vertically on floating landing platform in Yalta harbour, similar to SpaceX CRS-8 landing on April 8, 2016, (with SpaceX having successfully accomplished their first vertical landing recovery of a first stage booster as a return to launch site during Flight 20 of Falcon 9 on December 21, 2015).