11 October 2021
Disrupting Earth-bound asteroids with nukes is “very effective”, new study says
... of oil drillers sent to space to stop a meteor hurtling toward earth by blowing it up with a nuclear bomb. While the film is fictional, using a nuclear bomb to disrupt an asteroid is not as far-fetched as it sounds, say a team of scientists who have...
11 October 2018
Voyager/Hello from Planet Earth (CD / DVD set)
... is interpreted musically and visually by composer/performer Warren Greveson and designer/film-maker Tim Gill. Both the ‘Voyager’ album and the specially-commissioned film – ‘Hello from Planet Earth’ - begin with greetings in different languages...
11 October 2021
Blue Origin flight with William Shatner postponed until 13 October
...Perhaps one of the the most notable stars of TV and film, William Shatner’s career has spanned 60 years. He originated ...for the television series Star Trek. The series spawned a feature film franchise where he returned as Captain Kirk in seven of the ...
19 September 2023
Apollo Remastered
... has been to ‘return to the Moon virtually’ by means of documentary films and books. Occasionally, a coffee-table tome on Apollo makes us stop ...Apollo programme, but also the 10 hours of 16 mm film exposed on the missions. For the latter, he has ...
December 2014
India joins the major league with the Mars Orbiter Mission
... agencies. (d) India achieved it on a low budget – just $74 million dollars (Rs 450 crores.) Compare this to the cost of the film ‘Gravity’, which cost $100 million, and the price of NASA’s most recent mission to Mars, MAVEN, of $671...
March 2015
Satellite technology in newsgathering and disaster coverage
... news story added gravitas and a sense of urgency and importance to major events. To an industry used to dropping a roll of film in a mailbox and waiting a week or more for it to arrive at the studio, satellite was a game-changer. During the...
