August 2016
The promise of space tourism
... We have dreamed of these journeys while enjoying space-themed movies, TV programmes and books. Space travel is compelling, whether...list includes celebrities such as actor Tom Hanks, movie director James Cameron and renowned physics professor Stephen ...
March 2017
Space research inspires innovation in fashion
... to consumers The Moon Boot can also be considered as one of the first examples of ‘democratic’ design: it is on the feet of movie stars and queens, but also of all of us, thanks to a simple construction and relatively low price. This is an example...
26 January 2016
Scientists reveal a new way to test the origins of the Universe
...is akin to showing an audience many still pictures from a movie stacked on top of each other, but they lack proper..., we can turn the stacks of stills into a coherent movie and directly reveal the evolutionary history of the primordial universe," ...
04 October 2021
Russian film crew to head to the ISS, 5 October
... heading to the International Space Station 5 October on board a Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft, for a 12 day stay to film segments for a movie. Making his fourth flight into space, veteran Roscosmos cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, a former Commander of the ISS...
December 2014
Finding NEO
... of Earth’s atmosphere close to the horizon, LSST will still be remarkably sensitive. The LSST survey will open a movie-like window on objects that change brightness, or move, on timescales ranging from 10 seconds to 10 years. The survey will...
June 2015
European lab in the sky: OP-SAT and new potential for ESA spacecraft
... introduce even the tiniest risk, especially untested mission-critical flight control software. Thanks to popular sci-fi movies like Gravity and Interstellar, we tend to associate space with the latest and greatest technology. This is sometimes...
