In contrast to the rather worn and grotty Moon Zero Two, we have the sleek, speedy lines of Pan Am's Moon Express; complete with first-class accommodations and snooty chief officers who think they have a divine right to push ferry pilots around.

We don't actually get much of a look at the Moon Express in the film.  It's barely visible in only one scene and unless someone points it out, you'd miss it.  We only really know it from surviving production photos that show it as a vast, delta-winged craft that looks like it's the bastard child of an arrowhead and a flying wing.  I don't know which is worse:  That it inexplicably docks on top of a tower, that its aerodynamics are frightening, or that it looks like it's meant to be shot from a rubber band.

Pan Am?  Yes, it's the same one that ran shuttle flights to Station V in 2001: A Space Odyssey.  It looks as though the company was hedging its bets about keeping its name out there regarding space tourism.  So why is it sporting a "United Nations Spaceways" logo?  That was the first choice, but I suspect that it sounded a bit too much like  "League of Nations Oceanliners" and so the producers went for the product placement money.