A hibernation chamber is used by the solitary moonbase operator for the three day trip back to Earth. The HAL-9000 computer interfered with their life support, killing all three. Three of the five astronauts aboard the Discovery One in 2001: A Space Odyssey were placed in suspended animation.Nobody Nemo takes a trip to Mars aboard one of these, in order to maintain his late bride's promise of spreading her ashes on the red planet. Even at the phenomenal speed afforded by their matter-antimatter engines - 70 percent the speed of light - the journey from Earth to Pandora's solar system, Alpha Centauri, still takes over five years. The cryosleep variety is used in Avatar with the RDA's Interstellar Vessels.Possibly it was meant to save them from the discomfort of hyperspace entry. The shuttle to the space cruiser in The Fifth Element put all of its passengers into 'hypersleep' just before takeoff, even though the trip took just a few hours.The Elysium in Pandorum features a model of pod who combinates a hypersleep chamber and an Escape Pod, and it seems to have its user contained in an artificial skin aside from the classic liquid.In the prequel movies, stasis pods are shown being used on earlier slower interstellar spaceships like the Covenant. In the third movie, the Sulaco is attempting to return home via autopilot (as the few surviving humans are in the freezer and the AP, Bishop, is damaged): thus, nobody is available to kill a facehugger that managed to get aboard and causes more damage.In the second movie, we find that Ripley's escape crypod had been drifting for over half a century: she is now a woman without a place, as her family has all died of old age long before (setting up her adoption of Newt). In the first movie, the stasis effect was how the android planned to get a crewmember infected with an alien larva back home: the alien won't hatch in stasis, and the other cryopods can easily be sabotaged to eliminate all other witnesses.In the Alien series, most ships freeze their human crew/cargo, with the ships being run by Artificial Humans however, transit times suggest FTL, so it probably is used to avoid the effects of a possible Time Dilation which would slow the time inside the ship while the universe sees it jump.In the classic EC Comics story "50 Girls 50," a crewman entrusted with setting the cryogenic controls on his ship exploits them to wake up early, unthaw women one at a time, and manipulate them into sexual relations until he gets bored, murders his current "Eve," and moves on to another.Like Astro, he went into stasis for most of a space voyage only to find that the rest of the universe (well, Microverse) had discovered warp travel while he slept. Marvel's Micronauts basically cannibalized this figment of Astro's backstory and gave it to Arcturus Rann.(However, they did throw him a welcoming party.) As a bonus bummer, the long time he spent in the tube has damaged his body so that he needed a full-body life-support suit to survive. Only to find Earthmen had invented hyperdrive and beaten him there by several centuries. The Guardians of the Galaxy character Vance Astro spent 1,000 years in suspended animation for a slower-than-light trip to Alpha Centauri.The crew are the last of their race, and they've been aboard ship for so long, they're unfit to live on any habitable planet. Subverted in that the First Officer knows a terrible secret: none of those in the tubes are viable. Thousands of Kestorans lie in suspension tubes, while a minimal crew keeps the ship running. While exploring the Negative Zone, the Fantastic Four encounter the survivors of Kestor aboard a huge starship in Issue #253.
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