Tag Archive | "NASA"

To boldly go…

Thursday, July 21, 2011

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It’s a sad day for many geeks as the final space shuttle mission returns to the Earthbound domain, never again to glide silently miles above our world, over poles and continents, clear skies and storms, never again to surge back into our atmosphere at many times the speed of sound, streaking across the sky, carrying [...]

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“The Eagle has landed”

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

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Darryl Cunningham‘s on a roll this week – his powerful and moving Psychiatric Tales got the Observer Graphic Novel of the Month at the weekend and, in what must have been quite a flurry of activity, he finished his new comics project exploring the many conspiracy theories that surround the Apollo lunar missions. Darryl picks [...]

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Space, the final frontier…

Saturday, April 24, 2010

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I know a lot of my fellow science ficiton geeks are as fascinated by real life space exploration as we are by the fictional; the BBC site has a wonderful five minute slideshow of some of the finest deep space images produced over the last twenty years by the Hubble Space Telescope (is it really [...]

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On this day…

Thursday, July 16, 2009

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On this day, forty years ago, human beings began the great odyssey to the Moon. The enormous engines on one of the largest craft ever built ignited and a huge Saturn V ascended into the skies on a blistering column of fire. Take a moment to just think about that. Its too easy now for [...]

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Alex’s Thursday audio round-up

Thursday, July 2, 2009

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As we swelter under the unusual (for Britain) hot and humid conditions here’s Alex Fitch with a cooling, refreshing jug of comics and SF related audio goodness; as ever check the Panel Borders site for more details and archived podcast versions of previous shows: Strip!: There’s no time like the present, tonight at 5pm on [...]

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