Would have been great to watch “2001” with a live orchestra playing the soundtrack: New York Philharmonic Plays ‘2001 – A Space Odyssey’ – NYTimes.com.
Maybe this will happen someday at Wolf Trap, which just had a similar orchestral performance for Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings.
In the continuing serialization of the updated version of the book The Rocket Company by Patrick J. G. Stiennon and David M. Hoerr, with illustrations by Doug Birkholz. This week you can obtain the following chapters of the book:
Download these within the next week or so. Only four chapters will be available at any one time.
See also the electronic version of the updated book is available at The Rocket Company eBook by Patrick Stiennon, David Hoerr, Peter Diamandis, Doug Birkhol: Kindle Store/Amazon.com.
Homer Hickam of Rocket Boys fame talks with Nancy Atkinson about writing, rocketry, Rocket Boys the Musical and other topics: Q & A with Homer Hickam: Rocket Boys and Science Experiments Gone Wrong – Universe Today
Check out his new book Crescent (A Helium-3 Novel)
A poignant short piece about a stranded astronaut:
While astronaut Cady Coleman was residing on the International Space Station, she spoke and exchanged email with actress Sandra Bullock to help her prepare for her role in the movie Gravity, which is set to be released on October 4th. : Astronaut gave ‘Gravity’ advice to Sandra Bullock from space – collectSPACE.
If you haven’t seen the trailer, here is the latest version:
This video of Coleman playing her flute on the ISS is not nearly as hectic but a lot closer to what life is like there:
http://youtu.be/xGkWryz-EkI
And here is a duet with Ian Anderson: