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...
September 2017
Science searches for cosmic company
... only a few. These improvements are seldom appreciated by the general public, which imagines SETI as it is portrayed in the movies. In the Hollywood version, a lone researcher with headphones strains to hear anything vaguely odd. That depiction was...
June 2018
Striding through space
...’s Apollo 11 Flight Journal, a contributor to the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal, and has provided technical advice to space movies.
October 2018
The ethics of space exploration
... – astronaut Mark Watney sits alone contemplating the vast expanse of Mars in this image from the blockbuster movie, The Martian, based on the 2011 novel by Andy Weir. Beyond the status quo My point is not that...
