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Astronauts Waste Little Time

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2008-03-14 19:59:31 by Sam in Slice of SciFi
...Astronauts Install Japanese Room, Assemble Robot in Space Two spacewalking astronauts worked through the night high above the Earth to install Japans first orbital room and attach hands to a two-armed robot named Dextre International Space Station (ISS) flight engineer Garrett Reisman and mission specialist Rick Linnehan, a member of the...
 
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CULT TV FLASHBACK # 42: Planet of the Apes (1974): "Escape from Tomorrow"

2007-12-18 09:40:00 by John Kenneth Muir in John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Film/TV
 
...astronauts Alan Virdon (Ron Harper) and Pete Burke (Jim Naughton), in the far-flung year of 3085 (starting March 21, 3085, if we're to believe the spaceship chronometer...) on a world run by -- wait for it -- intelligent, talking simians In "Escape from Tomorrow," the introductory episode written by Art Wallace and directed by Don Weis, we...
 
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MIND MELD: Is Science Fiction Responsible for the Lack of Public Interest in Space Exploration?

2008-10-29 01:28:56 by John in SF Signal
 
...astronauts to discover that many of them began to first show an interest in space technology as the result of watching science fiction movies and TV series that opened up the possibility of space flight. Once we see it being done, even fictionally, we can get behind it and start making it happen. In the long history of the human race, nobody...
 
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CULT MOVIE REVIEW: Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (1969)

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2007-12-11 09:48:00 by John Kenneth Muir in John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Film/TV
...astronauts ready to commence the mission. Through it all, Journey to the Far Side of the Sun offers the aura of can-do, Apollo-Age optimism and futurism. This was a world where man had just landed on the moon and where space travel - despite bureaucratic kerfuffles and expense - was just around the corner...as are shattering discoveries about...
 
Tags: space, space capsule, sun, space program, space radiation, interplanetary space, space age, glenn ross, colonel glenn ross
 
 
 
 
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Virgin Galactic Update

2008-09-12 14:08:11 by Sam Sloan in Slice of SciFi
 
...astronauts into sub-orbital space flight It was important for Virgin Galactic and Scaled Composites to celebrate this historic event not just with the worlds press but also with our valued customers; it also provided a timely opportunity to congratulate the engineers whose skill and dedication produced such an amazing vehicle Read more VIRGIN...
 
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Call 1-800-Space Plumber

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2008-10-13 14:43:07 by Sam Sloan in Slice of SciFi
...astronauts aboard the International Space Station is on the fritz again just days before a trio of new spaceflyers are due to launch toward the orbiting lab, NASA officials said Friday A temporary telemetry glitch also sent the space station into a so-called survival mode earlier this morning, changing the outposts attitude and leading to...
 
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REVIEW: Wastelands: Stories of Life After the Apocalypse edited by John Joseph Adams

2008-01-03 00:29:28 by Editor in SF Signal
 
...astronauts return to an empty planet to find that Jesus had returned and whisked away all of its inhabitants to God-knows-where. An interesting spin on the story is that the eight astronauts are agnostic and don't know what to do. Should they try to contact Jesus? That depends on what happened to them, which they don't know. Ultimately,...
 
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New DVDs: 'In the Shadow of the Moon'

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2008-02-14 00:01:00 by Glenn Abel in DVD blog reviews home video news -- DVD Spin Doctor
...astronauts, now wisemen in their 70s. Via their testimonies, the moon does seem to come alive -- sometimes as a magical place; sometimes as a dark alien presence Apollo 16 crewman Charlie Duke recalls a Kubrickian dream in which he followed mysterious tracks across the lunar landscape until he came upon a motionless moon rover. Duke walked...
 
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CULT TV FLASHBACK # 48: Twilight Zone: "Death Ship" (1963)

2008-02-18 06:47:00 by John Kenneth Muir in John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Film/TV
 
...astronauts fro the rocket bureau man the exploratory vessel E-89 as it seeks out habitable planets for colonization. Captain Ross (Jack Klugman), Lt. Mason (Ross Martin) and Lt. Carter (Frederick Beir) observe the surface of one distant planet, and spot something odd: something metallic glittering in the jungle far below them. Excited at the...
 
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