April 2026
Apollo lunar rover - the Lego version
..., footrests and control console, release the wheels and fold everything up Those who have seen the films of an Apollo LRV bouncing across the lunar surface, in what astronaut Dave Scott called a “rocking-rolling ride...
30 June 2015
Debating Asteroid Day: NEOs, Dr. Brian May, the Catalina Sky Survey and more
... come to mind, all courtesy of Michael Bay’s “Armageddon” (check out this great Honest Trailer for the film while you’re at it). The general perception was that the asteroid threat was an appropriate topic for summer...
30 July 2015
SpaceShipTwo crash: dramatic testimony by Peter Siebold could offer new clues for space tourism safety
... about his dramatic plummet to Earth reads like something straight out of a more-horrifying-than-usual action film. The fact that Siebold made it was deemed to be nothing short of a miracle. Indeed, crashes are often full...
14 September 2015
Back to the future: SpaceX presents Crew Dragon interior
... palette, meanwhile, is pleasantly black-and-white, reminding us of the 2004 cinematic adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s “I,Robot.” The film itself wasn’t a great success, but there was something hypnotic about its use of black and white...
14 June 2016
Astronomers discover a giant planet orbiting two suns
... professor of physics at Lehigh University, to gather observations worldwide that helped confirm its identity. With the advent of films such as Star Wars, planets with more than one sun have long captivated our imagination, yet...
05 August 2016
Rio 2016 Summer Olympics Games, Brought to You by Your Local Satellite
... creation of the satellites in use today. The first artificial communications satellite was Echo-1, a 30-meter aluminised PET film balloon that reflected radio communications. It was launched on August 12, 1960 and was the first artificial satellite...
