October 2017
The sci-fi noir world of Blade Runner
... cinema. To be fair, all the ingredients were there for a fantastic movie. First, an excellent book on which the story is - loosely -...green’ or won’t be at all. Popular culture, including movies such as Blade Runner, has certainly played a role in ...
October 2021
Space in the movies – lessons for spacefarers
...inhabited Altair IV. In a gripping story, as well as being the first to present a faster-than-light human spacecraft, this movie considers the ‘Monster in the Id’ and the capacity of alien civilisations, and perhaps humanity, to play a dangerous game...
06 October 2021
Russian crew arrives at ISS to film first movie in orbit
...ISS) on Tuesday to begin a 12-day mission to make the first movie in orbit. The Russian crew is set to beat a Hollywood project ...Soyuz MS-19 spaceship to film scenes for "The Challenge". The movie's plot, which has been mostly kept under wraps along ...
January 2022
Earth - no longer humanity’s only home
... number has grown with typically seven or more crew on ISS. A recent Russian movie team visited the ISS for 12 days to capture scenes for a movie, which shows that in recent years space is becoming open to more people...
November 2019
Cosmo’s adventures in animated edutainment
...Mark Watney in Andy Weir’s science fiction novel and movie, but Cosmo’s story and mission hold a much more... using a different medium, like the paperback book version of a movie. Transmedia allows us to create the narrative and episodic adventures of ...
April 2021
Satellite servicing comes of age
..., for a moment, a scene from a science fiction movie: 36,000 kilometres over the sunlit Pacific Ocean, two satellites... need to know about this scene: it’s not from a science fiction movie. It really happened and I was there - on 25 February 2020 ...
