In the days leading up to Christmas 1973, three astronauts aboard Skylab, NASA’s first space station, enacted the first organised labour strike in outer space. Reconstructed from transcripts in claustrophobic close-up through a CCTV system, The Case Against Space unfolds as a real-time investigation, dramatically collapsing embodied historical re-enactment and speculative essayistic research into a collective testimony on struggle among the stars, of fights past, present and yet to come.