AMAZING NEWS: 4/28/24
From the THE MOST SFNAL THING WE’VE SEEN IN MONTHS Department: A Catholic Group Has Defrocked an AI Priest Deadpool & Wolverine trailer brings it With the passing of John Trimble, a new effort to […]
AMAZING NEWS: Post Black History Month Edition 3/3/24
In honor of the just passed Black History Month: a list of Black Genre Fiction Amazing People News: David Langford publishes the March, 2024 issue of Ansible Borys Sydiuk, our Fan in Ukraine, reports on […]
AMAZING NEWS (the first from 2023) 1-8-2023
Well, 2023 news roundup begins with a bang: honeybees getting vaccinated, liquid blood extracted from a 4,000 year old foal, an amateur archaeologist solves cave drawing riddle, a two-legged fox eats spam, David Brin’s Uplif series reviewed, a Norman Spinrad newsletter announced, Allen Steele promises more Captain Future, Kubrick answers 2001 question, and, you guessed it, even MORE!
The Sky Tree: Upon the Shoulders of Shopping Mall Proprietors
Who stole the future and put a shopping mall in its place? The tallest freestanding tower in the world dominates the Tokyo skyline, but falls far short of touching the stars.
Will the First Human on Mars Be a Woman?
If this happens, The Lady Astronaut series will suddenly become historically incorrect….
AMAZING NEWS: 10-27-19 : PRE-HALLOWEEN EDITION
Wow! weirdness and light this week in the news: plastic army women, Einstein up-ended, bra makers made spacesuits and if that isn’t weird enough, Cthulhu is picking a fight with Stephen King! Read on!
NASA Plans to Develop Mars Drone at Arctic Research Base
NASA plans on testing some flying machines in the most Martian landscape on Earth. Care to guess where?
Giant Ice Blades Found on Pluto – NASA
NASA believes it may have an explanation for the strange formations resembling giant blades of ice on Pluto.
A Human Base Camp on Mars by 2033!
NASA (and Lockheed Martin?) plan to have humans on Mars by 2033.
AMAZING NEWS: 9-24-2017
Mars flyer, rocket explosions, spiral galaxies, Hard SF stats, Heliosphere, GRRM and more
Cassini’s Grand Finale
Bye Bye Cassini! You did GREAT! Thanks for not contaminating Enceladus!
Congressional Funding for NASA in 2017 (Not half bad – who knew?)
Congress unanimously approved NASA’s 2017 budget. Considering the anti-science bias in this Congress, this one is a pleasant surprise (with one glaring exception).
REVIEW: HIDDEN FIGURES (A FEEL-GOOD MOVIE!)
Steve time travels (again?) back to 1961 with the review of the movie “Hidden Figures” and finds it more than good. Possibly his fave movie so far this year!
“5079: archivos secretos”: un escape al futuro de la humanidad
Augusto Rodríguez’ 5079: Secret Files is a novel told in fragments of documents, both official and secret, that tell the story of a migration from Earth to save humanity.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope
The ambitious mission of the James Webb Space Telescope is “to see the first light of the universe”.
Blueprint for a Battlestar by Rod Pyle
Blueprint for a Battlestar by Rod Pyle will take readers on a fact finding mission where the science is explained and the fiction just may become reality.
Is This How Dinosaurs Felt?
Worried that an asteroid will hit the Earth? As Andrew Weston reports, NASA has some good news and some bad news on the subject of a near earth object called Bennu.
MARS: FRIEND OR FOE? (Two Retro Movie Reviews)
Mars! Huh! What is it good for? (Absolutely nothing!) Steve reviews two old movies and offers a caution for Aries-ophiles.
Asni’s Art Blog: International Space Station
It is time I picked up the thread of my series on art inspired by real existing space exploration.
The Apollo 1 Fire: Astronauts Ed White and Roger Chaffee
Astronauts Ed White and Roger Chaffee were American heroes destined to go to the Moon. Unfortunately, neither of them made it.
Asni’s Art Blog: Astronaut / Cosmonaut
A whole difference in cultural outlook, summed up in a slight difference in terminology.
Citizens of the Solar System: 50 Years On and We’re STILL Stuck in Near-Earth Orbit?
We’ve been sending humans into near-Earth orbit for over 50 years now. Can’t we just move on?
MARS! And Some Reviews…
This week, Steve visits Mars (really! Sort of…) and reviews a new book and an overlooked movie from 2014. Check it out!
R is for Rocket by Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury’s R is for Rocket is a welcomed perspective of future space travel from years past. Because just like NASA’s Orion test launch, space matters.
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