July 2020
Are we entering a post-Overview Effect era?
... astronauts’ perspective-altering experience of seeing the Earth from the outside. With little or no marketing or publicity, the film quickly found a following on Vimeo, and as of 2020, had garnered 8.1 million views (see https://vimeo.com/55073825...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
... early space was unmistakably ‘peaceful purposes’: see the film The Right Stuff, read the US-published Colliers magazine ..., the US outspends the rest of the world combined. Films like The Right Stuff (Warner Brothers, 1983) unmistakeably reflected...
January 2023
Private space stations and NASA’s effort to re-invent itself
... a ‘space entertainment module’ that would allow the filming of movies and other entertainment in orbit. This ambitious...Reef includes a ‘space entertainment module’ that would allow the filming of movies and other entertainment in orbit The key here ...
11 January 2016
Space Rock Legend David Bowie Dies Aged 69
... In 1976 Bowie starred in “The Man Who Fell to Earth”. The film, about an extraterrestrial who crash lands on Earth in search of a way...this day. This was Bowie's first role in a feature film. Throughout his career, Bowie returned to the theme of space...
10 February 2016
Igor Ashurbeyli Awarded UNESCO Medal
... (France), Dean of research and Professor of the Ecole Centrale de Lille, Founder and Head of the AIMAN-FILMS Research Group of the Institute of Electronics, Microelectronics and Nanotechnology - for his work on active nanostructured magnetic and...
07 September 2018
ANA/JAXA plan to revolutionise space with real-world Avatars
...The ten foot tall, blue-skinned Avatars in the film of the same name might be a thing of ...space exploration in a multi-phase program known as “AVATAR X”. In the James Cameron film, the Avatars were copies of the beings they hoped to win over - the ...
