...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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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...
... 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...
... characteristics, moved into orbit close to Phobos’ orbit, took measurements that were unique at the time and filmed Phobos’ surface for a period of two months. It was about to start moving in closer to Phobos. Considering the loss...
... scientist Donald Kessler – the reality is not likely to be on the scale of these predictions or the events depicted in the film Gravity. Indeed, results presented by the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC) at the Sixth European...