 Pan Am expected the flight to depart about 2000.A fictional Pan Am "Space Clipper," a commercial spaceplane called the "Orion III", had a prominent role in Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film "" and was featured prominently in one of the movie's posters.Plastic models of the 2001 Pan Am Space Clipper were sold by both the Aurora Company and Airfix at the time of the film's release in 1968.