Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror classic Alien (1979) takes place in deep space, light years from Earth, on the starship Nostromo as it picks up what the crew thinks is a distress signal from a nearby ...

The USCSS Nostromo is a towing vessel owned by the Weyland-Yutani Corporation. It provides the setting for most of the 1979 Alien movie, where we get to see it landing on a moon, tugging a huge ore ...

Dallas, who has sole access to Mother as Captain, discovers that their employers, Weyland-Yutani, want the crew to investigate an encrypted signal on a remote moon in the Zeta II Reticuli system.