The latest trailer for the film Interstellar, which is scheduled for release on November 7th:
Archive for Space films and videos
Rob Godwin, the owner and founder of Apogee Space Books. was on the Space Show Friday and discussed the book, 2001: The Heritage And Legacy Of The Space Odyssey, published by www.apogeeprime.com and written by the late Fred Ordway and Godwin: Rob Godwin, Friday, 9-12-14 – Thespaceshow’s Blog […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This blooper reel from the movie, Star Trek Into Darkness, is quite fun: [ Update: Apparently Paramount objected to the posting of the clip and it was removed. You can find it on the Star Trek: The Compendium [Blu-ray]: ]
Here’s an interesting time lapse video from the European Space Agency (ESA) showing the preparations up to the time of the launch of the last ATV module that delivered cargo to the International Space Station: ATV-5 Launch Campaign Description: This time-lapse […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
An interesting article about two documentary style films about spaceflight made in the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 60s by director Pavel Klushantsev : This is (maybe) how we’d have colonised the Moon if the Soviet Union had got there first […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The fan supported but professionally produced and acted independent Star Trek film project Axanar has created a 21 minute short film : To complete the full-length film, they are using crowd-funding to pay for the development in “discreet sections “. However, they may not […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A very beautifully made animation: Two Astronauts Fall In Love A Little More Each Time Their Orbits Meet – These two astronauts may come from warring species, but alone in space they become valued company, exchanging tokens of affection each time they […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“Interstellar” trailer
Check out the latest trailer for the movie Interstellar, which will be released in November. Go to the home page and enter the access code 7201969, hit submit.
I mentioned Ken Murphy in the previous posting about the Moon Day event this Saturday in Dallas that he is helping to organize. Ken was interviewed on the Space Show recently : Ken Murphy, Tuesday, 7-15-14 – Thespaceshow’s Blog They talked […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The documentary The Last Man on the Moon focuses on Apollo 17 astronaut Eugene Cernan. He was the last person to leave his footprint on the Moon when he stepped from the surface into their lunar module for the return trip to rendezvous with the command […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ken Murphy, President of The Moon Society and curator of the Lunar Library, LLC, posts an extensive list of movies up through 2002 in which the plot involved some aspect of exploration and development of cislunar space region: Cislunar cinema (part 1) – The Space […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
On the 20th anniversary of their album The Division Bell, Pink Floyd has released a music video of the song Marooned: Pink Floyd Releases New “Marooned” Space Video – Unifited Pop Theory
Here’s the latest trailer to director Christopher Nolan‘s new movie Interstellar: And here is one for Jupiter Ascending:
Back in January I mentioned the crowd-funded documentary film I Want To Be An Astronaut, which was in final preparations for the film festival circuit. On Friday, David Livingston interviewed David Ruck, the maker of the film about its status: David Ruck, Friday, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Dima Filippov at Digital Stories Music pointed me to two new videos with music from his album “Cosmos EP” on FutuRekords, which will be released on April 12th, i.e. Yuri’s Night.
Congratulations to the makers of and the actors in Gravity for the seven Oscars they won tonight, including Best Director for Alfonso Cuarón. Quite remarkable for a space drama with a near-term, (fairly) hard science, realistic approach to captivate audiences […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Video: Riding a rocket
Here’s a cool promotional video for an upcoming special about space on Channel 4 in the UK: Live From Space – Channel 4
Author Steven Donoso wrote me today about the 1963 Czechoslovakian space science-fiction film Ikarie XB-1, which I was unaware of and did not have on my space sci-fi film list. In the US the film was shortened and released as Voyage to the End of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Voyager 1‘s journey is even more exciting that I knew:
Robbie the Co-Robot
A reader responds to the earlier posting about robot assistants in space with a link to this documentary about Robby the Robot, a metallic character first seen in the marvelous 1956 movie Forbidden Planet: