Tag Archives: Space shuttle
How the Space Shuttle Broke My Heart
This weekend’s Radio 4 Extra Floating In Space 3-hour special (9am and 7pm Saturday Mar 1th and iplayer after) with Simon Guerrier explores the history and the fantasy of manned space exploration from the cosmonauts to dreams of Mars … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Culture, Design, Film, History, Politics, Radio, Science, Science Fiction/Fantasy, TV, Uncategorized
Tagged 70s, Carl Sagan, culture, film, FTW, nasa, Obama, politics, Space shuttle
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Interstellar’s Heart of Darkness & the Dust Bowl
I like to go to the cinema to escape the gloom of a Sunday evening and what better escape than Interstellar? An epic journey to other worlds. It begins in a rural America devastated by environmental disaster. Real survivors of … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Film, History, Media, Politics, Religion, Science, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Uncategorized
Tagged adam rutherford, ann druyan, Carl Sagan, cold war, contact, dustbowl, fdr, george pal, Hollywood, humanism, interstellar, jodie foster, joseph conrad, ken burns, mathew mcconaughey, michael caine, nasa, Outer space, roosevelt, Space shuttle, when worlds collide
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The space shuttle: the shape of things that never came.
Or How The Space Shuttle Promised Me The Universe, But Left Me On The Gantry Of Broke Dreams. It seems appropriate that the final Space Shuttle mission launch got pushed off the front pages and main broadcast news coverage by … Continue reading
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Tagged 70s, Carl Sagan, cinema, culture, film, Obama, Outer space, politics, Space shuttle, Star Trek, war
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