11 October 2021
Disrupting Earth-bound asteroids with nukes is “very effective”, new study says
... fragments before it hits Earth is known as disruption and was a scenario made popular by the film Armageddon; a disaster movie that centres around a crew of oil drillers sent to space to stop a meteor hurtling toward earth by blowing it up with...
13 October 2021
Blue Origin's second all civilian crew successfully reaches space
... famous in the 60s for his portrayal of Captain James Tiberius Kirk in the Star Trek TV programme and movie franchises, said Monday that the hardest part of space flight will be getting in and out of the seat...
05 November 2021
Blue Origin loses NASA lawsuit over SpaceX lunar lander contract
..., Musk, also took to Twitter to comment on the ruling but posted a meme from the 1995 comic book movie "Judge Dredd," saying "You have been judged."
18 July 2017
Why the space programme needs civil engineers
... be helping with. Terraforming Terraforming is the process of making another planet hospitable for human life. We’ve all seen it in movies and it is not something that is likely to be needed for quite some time. However, those working in the space...
26 February 2018
2001: The Lost Science – The Scientists, Influences & Designs
... first volume, draws on the archives of the late Fred Ordway, who worked with Stanley Kubrick on the movie. This volume summarises the work of some of the scientists and engineers who influenced Kubrick, Ordway and...
29 March 2018
The Impact of Discovering Life Beyond Earth
... 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...
