29 March 2018
Radio Astronomer
... at Caltech in the US and another in New South Wales, Australia (the Parkes radio telescope which featured in the movie film ‘The Dish’). The author traces Bolton’s story from his birth in Sheffield, UK, via education at Trinity...
12 April 2019
Space Sirens, Scientists and Princesses
... of the coverage is bound to be predictable: we all know that women were often used as ‘window dressing’ in the earlier movies and rarely appeared as leading characters, but there are many interesting exceptions to the rule in science fiction...
11 November 2019
Rare transit of Mercury happening soon!
... place, NASA have created https://mercurytransit.gsfc.nasa.gov to let you watch this event as short movies in almost real time. The transit lasts a little over 5.5 hours, ending as Mercury leaves the disk of the...
20 September 2021
SpaceX all-civilian crew completes historic orbital mission
... the mission has raised an additional $60 million, but more is expected. SpaceX announcers said the crew watched movies as they waited for recovery at sea, after days of medical research in microgravity and multiple calls to Earth, including...
11 October 2021
Blue Origin flight with William Shatner postponed until 13 October
... Trek. The series spawned a feature film franchise where he returned as Captain Kirk in seven of the Star Trek movies, one of which he directed. He has long wanted to travel to space and will become the oldest person to have...
19 May 2022
Science Fiction
... and the real world of the space sector, industry or profession. There are, however, plenty of mentions of space movies, from Star Trek to Hidden Figures, and real space actors from NASA to Elon Musk. The cultural...
