October 2021
Space in the movies – lessons for spacefarers
... of some modern-day catastrophists. By the same token, Avatar (2009), which is one of the world’s highest grossing films (at around US$3 billion), depicts a very plausible scenario whereby humans snatch resources from another inhabited planet. Where...
February 2021
The Space Monuments Men
...I just could not believe it. Millions of people have seen my films but it’s a very select niche audience and he was that audience....a SpaceX Falcon 9, an inspirational still from the Vanilla Fire Film ‘Apollo 11 We Must Be Bold’, available via YouTube....
24 August 2015
The science of space movies: Matt Damon, “The Martian,” and the great Mars gamble
... a realistic scenario featuring an astronaut stranded on Mars. Starring Matt Damon, the film even has NASA excited (and when is NASA ever excited about Hollywood films featuring space?). Ridley Scott has been on a downward spiral as of late...
January 2018
Cosmic cocktails and galactic moonshine
... no other scene depicts more literally the phrase ‘alcohol in space’ than this opening scene of the 1994 film, Star Trek Generations. In this 23rd century ship christening ceremony, we see a new Starship Enterprise entering service...
November 2016
Hi-tech greenhouse to test plant cultivation technologies in Antarctica
The EDEN ISS consortium will design and test essential controlled environment agriculture (CEA) technologies using an International Standard Payload Rack (ISPR) cultivation system for potential testing onboard the International Space Station (ISS). ...
April 2019
Is a military space force justified?
... concept of troops engaged in a fight in Earth orbit brings to mind the absurd images from the James Bond film ‘Moonraker’, where competing forces deployed from the cargo bays of space shuttles to participate in hand-to-hand combat...
