14 June 2016
Astronomers discover a giant planet orbiting two suns
... suns and is named so after Luke Skywalker's homeland in "Star Wars.” The planets official status is Kepler-1647b, a Jupiter size planet ...its identity. With the advent of films such as Star Wars, planets with more than one sun have long captivated ...
12 December 2016
John Glenn; one of NASA's original 'Mercury 7' astronauts dies aged 95
... in Columbus. An accomplished fighter pilot who received five Distinguished Flying Crosses for serving in both World War II and the Korean War, Glenn was one of the “Mercury Seven,” a group of military test pilots selected by NASA in 1959...
02 November 2017
How to teach and learn about space
... part of what drives us. For example, books like the Star Wars series fuelled our curiosity to see what's really out there and ... about how to design spacecrafts. Even here on earth, Star Wars is inspiring robot design. Because of this, it would be ...
23 March 2018
The Politics of Space Security
... multilateral coordination over political and military posturing, or as Winston Churchill once put it, “jaw-jaw” is better than “war-war”. Mark Williamson, Space Technology Consultant
13 April 2019
Space Sirens, Scientists and Princesses
... of Felicity Jones as Jyn Erso in the “Rogue One” Star Wars story. Much of the coverage is bound to be predictable: we all... remember Carrie Fisher’s spunky Princess Leia in the original Star Wars film, which was released in 1977 when ‘feminist’ was...
19 September 2023
The Atlas of Space Rocket Launch Sites
...serious space journalists, especially since the end of the Cold War. The same could be said for Europe’s launch site in French... Guiana (though minus the Cold War reference) and it is ably covered in this book. It is ...
