Browsing: space

If you are someone who LOVES learning about the great American Space Race and the astronauts who boldly went where no man had gone before, you need to check out Armstrong. A documentary about Neil Armstrong directed by David Fairehead is told through interviews, home footage, and Neil’s own words (narrated by fellow pilot Harrison Ford), Armstrong has […]

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We love NASA, we love space, we love JPL and all those wonderful men and women who are working towards exploration and understanding our universe. Here’s what you need to know about NASA InSight ahead of the landing which should begin via the JPL livefeed around 11am PST: In mere hours, NASA’s InSight spacecraft will […]

Now, don’t panic when I say “national mythos” in the headline of this review. I’m in no way suggesting the moon landing was a myth. Apollo 11 and the wider Apollo project at large is a part of the American psyche and it’s own historic construct – the individuals involved were all larger than life, […]

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While we still don’t know what the heck Ronald D. Moore’s new space series for Apple will be called, we do know that three new faces have been added to the cast. Sarah Jones, Michael Dorman, and Altered Carbon’s Joel Kinnaman will be playing the three leads in the upcoming space series the Battlestar Galactica helmer is doing […]

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Five years ago during San Diego Comic-Con, there was a pressroom for the yet-to-be-released revamp of Cosmos, and I was one of the 4 people who attended the pressroom.  It had been scheduled up against Supernatural or some such show, and it was so disappointing to see so few members of the press interested in speaking with […]

Be still my little nerd heart- those wonderful madpersons over at NASA have once again proven their multi-dimensional nerdiness by naming two new small satellites after a pair of perfect Pixar characters, Wall-E and Eva. The two cubesats (small, suitcase-sized satellites) are on a mission to report on Mars- and they’re hitching a ride aboard […]