After working with Gale Anne Hurd on The Terminator and Aliens, Stan Winston Studio was the clear choice for alien designs in the 1988 film Alien Nation, directed by Graham Baker. The film is set in 1991, a few years after an off-course alien spaceship has landed on Earth, depositing 300,000 bulbous-headed aliens, called ‘newcomers’, a specially-bred slave race that attempts to integrate into human society. More than a science fiction movie, the film was a metaphor for race relations and a plea

The search for life out there begins right here, in some of Earth’s most extreme environments. In the fourth episode of our documentary series Our Alien Earth, NASA astrobiologists explore beneath the volcanoes of Hawai’i to advance our search for life on other worlds. Watch today: https://go.nasa.gov/4oWEg6D | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration