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J.W. Rinzler Delivers an ALL UP Stellar Story

September 21, 2020 Jason P. Hunt 611 Views 0 Comments All Up, book review, J.W. Rinzler, NASA, Space Race, UFOs

A mix of historical events and speculative elements combine to deliver a solid rocket ship story.

Mission Accomplished: NASA and SpaceX Put America Back in Space

May 31, 2020 Daniel C. Handley 559 Views 0 Comments Artemis, astronaut, Demo-2, dragon, Falcon 9, Falcon9, International Space Station, ISS, Launch America, NASA, SpaceX

NASA and SpaceX have successfully put humans onto the International Space Station from US soil.

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Science News, May 28th, 2019

May 28, 2019 Daniel C. Handley 639 Views 0 Comments ARM, asteroid, astrobee, Falcon 9, Ford, Huawei, Mars, Martian, mutation, NASA, pmi industries, robot, robotics, SpaceX, StarLink

This week, a binary asteroid flyby, humans mutating on Mars, Astrobees, a Starlink launch, the arrest of a SpaceX contractor employee, ARM breaks with Huawei, and Ford’s robot.

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Science News May 19, 2019

May 19, 2019 Daniel C. Handley 538 Views 0 Comments Beresheet, breast cancer, Colorado Springs, facial recognition, lunar lander, mining, moon, moon quakes, NASA, Saturn, SpaceX, StarLink

Protecting Saturn’s rings, Moon quakes, Beresheet’s remains, Starlink delays, a new space hub, hydrogen planes, banning facial recognition, and detecting breast cancer.

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Science News May 5th, 2019

May 5, 2019 Daniel C. Handley 484 Views 0 Comments 3d printing, AI, artificial intelligence, asteroid, autism, bionic, contact lens, crispr, DARPA, International Space Station, ISS, Microsoft, NASA, satellite, SpaceX, StarLink, stem cells

This week in Science: SpaceX launch, asteroid preppers, Starlink, a new UK laser, military contact lenses, 3D printed organs, skin cells to make embryos, a fetal DNA treatment, and monkey brain imagery.

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Mars InSight Seeks New Discoveries

November 27, 2018 Daniel C. Handley 530 Views 0 Comments geology, InSight, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, jpl, Mars, NASA, probe, Red Planet, satellite, Space

Manned missions to Mars? NASA’s InSight probe, which just landed and is tasked to dig under the surface of the planet, might just be another step towards that goal.

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FIRST MAN Biopic – The Next Great Space Race Movie?

October 9, 2017 Ann Laabs 1725 Views 0 Comments Apollo 11, Apollo 13, Apollo Program, Brian D'Arcy James, Buzz Aldrin, Claire Foy, Corey Stoll, Damien Chazelle, First Man, James R. Hansen, Jason Clarke, Jon Bernthal, Josh Singer, Justin Hurwitz, Kyle Chandler, Michael Collins, NASA, Neil Armstrong, Pablo Schreiber, Paul Lambert, Ryan Gosling, Space Race, Universal

Ryan Gosling is set as astronaut Neil Armstrong, portraying the FIRST MAN on the Moon. Is this the next great Space Race movie?

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2016 Nebula Award Winners Announced

May 21, 2017 Dave Margosian 1472 Views 0 Comments Amal El-Mohtar, Arrival, Awards, Charlie Jane Anders, David D. Levine, Kjell Lindgren, NASA, Nebula, Nebula Awards, Nebula Conference, Peggy Rae Sapienza, Seanan McGuire, Sesaons of Glass and Iron, SFWA, Tom Weisskopf, William Ledbetter

The Science Fiction Writers of America recently handed out the annual Nebula, Bradbury, Norton and Kate Wilhelm Solstice Awards. And the winners are…

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SciFi4Chicks Dives Into HIDDEN FIGURES and STEM

March 27, 2017 SciFi4Me Staff 1884 Views 0 Comments Allison Schroeder, Janelle Monae, Jim Parsons, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, Mahershala Ali, Margot Lee Shetterly, NASA, Octavia Spencer, Oscars, podcast, SciFi4Chicks, SciFi4Me Radio, STEM, Taraji P. Henson, Theodore Melfi

This month, Mindy Inlow and Ann Laabs dive into the Oscar-nominated 2016 film HIDDEN FIGURES and the world of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math).

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Organic Molecules Found on Ceres

February 17, 2017 Rachael Mueller 2218 Views 0 Comments asteroid, Ceres, Dawn, Dawn space probe, dwarf planet, Ernutet, molecule, NASA, organic, planet, Space

A team of scientists just found evidence of the building blocks of life on the surface of the dwarf planet Ceres.

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HIDDEN FIGURES has All the Right Math

January 19, 2017 Teresa Wickersham 1943 Views 2 Comments 20th Century Fox, Dorothy Vaughan, Hidden Figures, Janelle Monae, Jim Parsons, Katherine Johnson, Kevin Costner, Mary Jackson, movie review, NASA, Octavia Spencer, Taraji Henson

Teresa cannot recommend HIDDEN FIGURES more highly. Based on real life people, it is a story that will move and inspire you.

Jet Propulsion Laboratory's original welcome sign.

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Jet Propulsion Laboratory Celebrates 80 Years with Free 2017 Calendar

January 3, 2017 Angie Fiedler Sutton 1616 Views 0 Comments anniversary, history, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA, science, Space

Bring in the new year with a space calendar celebrating JPL’s 80th anniversary.

Television & Film

Gosling Attached to Neil Armstrong Biopic

December 29, 2016 Jason P. Hunt 1257 Views 0 Comments Apollo 11, astronaut, biopic, book adaptation, Damien Chazelle, film, First Man, movies, NASA, Neil Armstrong, Ryan Gosling, Universal Pictures, US space program

Ryan Gosling will re-team with his LA LA LAND director for a biopic about the first man on the moon and what it took to get there.

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H2O #133: In Which We Discuss the SpaceX Explosion and the Conspiracy Theory

October 7, 2016 SciFi4Me Staff 927 Views 0 Comments astronauts, Boeing, Elon Musk, Falcon 9, H2O, Lockheed Martin, NASA, rocket, rocket science, sabotage, SciFi4Me Radio, space exploration, space technology, SpaceX, United Launch Alliance

Earlier this month, SpaceX was testing a Falcon 9 rocket when something went terribly, horribly wrong and the rocket exploded in a spectacular fireball. Now, some are wondering if it was more than just an “accident”…