... edge of our Sun’s habitable zone moves past our planet’s orbit. Anyone who saw Woody Allen’s movie Radio Days knows that we were promised five billion more years of having a habitable planet! Sure, it’s five...
Watching the movie The Martian recently I was captured by the creativity demonstrated by two key characters - the astronaut stranded on Mars, ...
... detailed interviews with Armstrong, his family and other contacts through his lifetime. Equally fascinating is the movie In the Shadow of the Moon, co-directed and produced by Chris Riley and released in 2007, which included interview...
... Space Science & Investment Congress (ASIC). Arguably, most of us interested in space travel have seen or heard about the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey with its famous rotating spacecraft ‘Discovery One’. We have passed almost two decades...
... bronze sculpture of Apollo 13’s Jack Swigert that I remembered seeing in the rotunda of the US Capitol Building while shooting a movie there some 10 years earlier. It didn’t even occur to me to see if there had been monuments to any other Apollo...
... his frustration and admiration of it Yet once again, the role of technology is beholden to plot not just in the movies, but also in our heads – hence our continuing, unrealistic treatment of it. Don’t expect films to be scientifically sound. Plot...