... work on rocketry provided the background material for science fiction films: from the space station in Hermann Potocnik... are particularly interesting in that they don’t look like science fiction; one could easily imagine a real moon bus based on...
... a tiny fraction of its original endowment of water. Mars, the second-nearest planet to Earth, is a somewhat better candidate. Science fiction authors have for many years populated Mars with humans or humanoid races. I grew up reading Edgar Rice...
... experience. That said, this is clearly more of a ‘space opera’ than what science fiction aficionados call ‘hard SF’. Informed by his science background, Johnson writes straightforwardly with little superfluous waffle or artistic pretension. In fact...
... of private commercial space stations. There were many science fiction writers and movie producers who envisioned this type of...com/axiom-station). This may seem to some like science fiction but Axiom Space has contracts underway with Thales Alenia...
...programme.” Space generation Many people only know space from the science fiction dramas and computer games that play out on the big ... and family, many people only know space from the science fiction dramas and computer games that play out on the big...
... tested ion propulsion and other high-risk technologies, helped bring ion propulsion from the domain of science fiction to science fact. Dawn is one of DS1’s beneficiaries, and being the first spacecraft ever built to orbit two target...