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Outer Space Humor From Before Mankind Landed On The Moon
We have often opined, here at GFR, that merging science fiction and comedy is a tricky proposition, at best. When …
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The U.S. Has A Space Plane That Has Been In Orbit Since 2012
I don’t know about every craft the U.S. sends into orbit, nor am I familiar with all of the missions, …
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Google Buys Dronemaker Titan Aerospace In Bid To Provide Internet To Everyone
If you go to the Titan Aerospace website, instead of seeing information about the drones it makes, you simply find …
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Al Gore’s Daughter Is Making An HBO Astronaut Comedy
It seems astronauts are all the rage these days. Sandra Bullock earned an Oscar nom and conquered the box office …
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Spacecraft 2000-2100 AD Videos Bring Classic ‘70s Sci-Fi Art To Life
From the time I first learned to read, all the way through to my eventually moving out for college, my …
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ESA’s Cosmic Vision Includes New Planet-Hunting Mission
NASA likes to boast about its planet-hunting capabilities thanks to both the Kepler and the Hubble telescopes. But NASA’s not …
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There Might Be Water Flowing On Mars Right Now
Earlier in the Curiosity Rover‘s travels around the Red Planet it gleaned a bunch of information about the water-soaked soil, …
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SETI Predicts We’ll Find Intelligent Alien Life By 2040
Scientists like to debate theories about aliens — are they out there? Where? Which planets are most likely to harbor …
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NASA Program Aims To Put Commercial Landers On The Moon, Stirs Property Rights Debate
NASA recently announced a new initiative called Lunar CATALYST (Cargo Transportation and Landing by Soft Touchdown) and is seeking proposals …
First-Person HD Footage Of Felix Baumgartner’s Space Jump
Warning: Baumgartner goes into a violent spin around the 5:10 mark, so if you get motion sick easily you might …
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Virgin Galactic SpaceShip Two Makes Third (And Highest) Test Flight
The Virgin Galactic doubters are eating their words after their soon-to-be low-Earth orbit spaceship made its third successful test flight …
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Sci-Fi Movie Producer Bernard Glasser Dies At 89
B-movie science fiction producer Bernard Glasser died in Los Angeles this past Thursday. Glasser mainly produced low-budget sci-fi films from …
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Meet Valkyrie, NASA’s Superhero Robot
We’ve done lots of posts here on GFR about NASA, many of which bemoan the state and the budget of …
British Interplanetary Society Wants To Build Rotating Space Colonies
I want to go to there.
Asteroid Mining Could Launch Us Even Deeper Into Space
There’s been quite a bit of talk of asteroids lately, and not in the usual one’s-about-to-slam-into-Earth-thus-obliterating-all-life-dear-god-Bruce-Willis-can-you-save-us kind of way. Well, …
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Robots Run This Space-Themed Chinese Hotel
Okay, China. You win. A space-themed hotel is pretty badass, but staffing it with robots? Total genius. Given that most …
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A Touching Tribute To Carl Sagan
You’re much missed, Carl.
Lady Gaga Set To Perform In Space In 2015
We probably shouldn’t be too surprised by this. If there were any performer ready to sing in space, it would …
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UN Approves Asteroid Protection Guidelines And Japan Tests An Asteroid-Blasting Space Cannon
Between huge meteor chunks being recovered from a Russian lake, planned asteroid mining, and space rocks that fly by and …
Five Sci-Fi Movies With Halloween Hearts
Halloween makes a freaky backdrop for sci-fi fun.
Space Racers And NASA Aim To Take Over Preschool Entertainment
If you have children you’ve probably been inundated by one program after the other that teaches kids how to count, …
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NASA Prepares Orion For Unmanned Flight Tests
Despite the government shutdown, NASA was able to continue working on the Orion, NASA’s next manned spacecraft. Before any humans …
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Read President Jimmy Carter’s Voyager Letter To Extraterrestrials
The Voyager 1 probe made history in 2013 when scientists agreed that it had finally, officially ventured beyond our solar …
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The Moon Is Covered In Human Feces
Those of you who saw Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity this past weekend—and if the box office numbers are any indication there …
Gravity Movie Review
And incredible movie.
Celebrities In Space: Milky Way Mission Is The Next Inevitable Reality Show Evolution
Manned space travel is in a strange place right now, with NASA’s funding getting slashed and private corporations talking a …
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo Provides A Helluva View From Its Latest Rocket-Powered Test Flight
It seems like we’ve been talking about “space tourism” for ages now. One of the oldest players in the game …
NASA Funds Ten Space Tech Proposals
It’s good to see that even though NASA isn’t swimming (or flying) in dough, it’s still able to fund space …
Japan’s Kirobo Robot Talks To Us From Space
One small step for man, one even smaller step for robots. On August 21, Japan’s adorable Kirobo robot became the …
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Space Pirate Captain Harlock Gets A New Title And A Swashbuckling First Clip
Director Aramaki Shinji (Appleseed) premiered his computer animated Space Pirate Captain Harlock this week at the Venice Film Festival. The …
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