The Space Shuttle has played an important role in various works of fiction. Early examples include the 1979 James Bond film, Moonraker where shuttles played a major role well before any were actually launched, Activision videogame Space Shuttle: A Journey into Space (1982) and G. Harry Stine'...
While we’ve collated thePredator movies ranked, worst to best, this new installment is set to be something the franchise has never seen before. It brings back returningPreydirector, Dan Trachtenberg, and he’s not done shaking up the film series as this time he’s focusing on the Predator...
The application of atmospheric pressure plasmas to thin film deposition and nanomaterials synthesis have also been reviewed by Fanelli [47] Massines et al. [48], Merche et al. [49] and Belmonte et al. [50,51]. Although different atmospheric pressure plasma sources have been proposed through ...
Sept. 1: Georges Melies' "Le Voyage dans la Lune," (A Trip to the Moon), the first full-length science fiction film on space travel, premiers at Robert-Houdin theater in Paris, France. Robert H. Goddard, then a high-school student, submits an article "The Navigation of Space" to ...
The film explores a pair of detectives tracking a brutal serial killer and is planned as the intro into multiple features set in a crime-ridden world suffering from a hidden vampire epidemic.Gilliam and O’Hara are both attached for the feature, which is aiming to shoot this year.The short...
Sen. Marco Rubio, a Republican from Florida, tweeted, "This is total lunacy. And a disservice at a time when our people need reminders of what we can achieve when we work together." At the Venice Film Festival Gosling defended the filmmaker's choice, reported The Telegraph, saying, "I...
The project, which came to be called Corona, would take pictures over the Soviet Union and return them to Earth by dropping the exposed film in a capsule that would be snatched out of the air as it parachuted back from space. After 12 failures, the first successful Corona mission took ...
when the American motion-picture directorStanley Kubrick’s classic science-fiction film2001: A Space Odysseydepicted a spinning double-wheel station under construction aboveEarth. On a regular schedule, a fleet of commercial space planes flew people up to the station, from which they could catch ...
Jeff Foust reviews the film and the space-themed festival it is part of at the center.Monday, March 31, 2025 A final twist in the Starliner saga A Crew Dragon returned from the International Space Station last week with four people on board, including two who arrived at the station last ...
It should be clear from eqs. (9) through (12) that any object with a dielectric film thickness, d, on the order of 10 μ and an area, πR2, on the order of 1 m2 will have a parallel plate capacitance that is 104 times larger than the free-space capacitance. Some examples of sp...