29 March 2018
Meeting the Challenge: The Hexagon KH-9 Reconnaissance Satellite
... descriptions make this less of a trial than it might appear. Other chapters, such as “Joining the Corporation” and “Film and a Disagreement with the CIA” offer breaks from the nuts and bolts. Overall, this is an extremely...
November 2019
Space for Art – Reflections on the Moon
... made one year before the first Moon landing. The film begins in total darkness, with only the sound of ... Zarathustra, written in 1896. It illustrates a central theme of the film: humankind’s development since the dawn of time and the quest for ...
August 2020
Revisiting the Drake Equation - a cultural addendum
... of an alien encounter and trying to avoid an extraterrestrial trail of tears. OpinionIn a still from Georges Méliès’ 1902 adventure film Le voyage dans la Lune a group of lunar explorers is attacked and brought before the king of the Moon...
July 2021
Commercial space stations - fulfilling the dream
... better way than you can on Earth. You can, of course, film movies in true microgravity and I know a lot of people are interested ... delete at the final edit? Well, you can, of course, film movies in true microgravity and I know a lot of people are ...
May 2025
Mythologies of Outer Space - A new perspective on the final frontier
... dictated lunar exploration, underscoring the increasing role of private capital in shaping its future. Afronauts, a 2014 short film by Ghanaian-born filmmaker Nuotama Bodomo, was inspired by the Zambian space programme in the 1960s. It follows the...
19 June 2019
Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C Clarke and the Making of a Masterpiece
...by this, the author reveals that Ordway’s initial review of the film was an “eight-page letter to Kubrick [that] vented exasperation...Space Odyssey enters its second half-century, fans of the film will be dusting off their videotapes and DVDs to take ...
