... of cosmic evolution’. That said, you just have to love an essay that begins “One of my all-time favorite movies is the 1951 science fiction thriller, The Day the Earth Stood Still”. Ultimately, this is the sort...
... 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...
... 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...
... 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...
... 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...
... 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...