There have been some great space travel movies throughout the history of cinema, with everything from the 1902 french silent film Le Voyage Dans la Lun ( A Trip to the Moon ) to Stanley Kubrick's 1969 masterful 2001: A Space Odyssey coming to mind.
Between 2010 and 2019, audiences around the world were treated to some of the greatest offerings in the history of the genre, so many that you might have forgotten one or two. To remind you of some, I've put together a list of 11 great space travels movies to come out in the past 10 years for you to explore. Buckle up and don't forget your dramamine because this is going to be a wild ride…
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Six ways to buy a ticket to space in 2021 | Astronomy.com
NASA delays new astronaut selection due to coronavirus constraints | Space
NASA has delayed the selection of its next astronaut class, citing constraints related to the ongoing spread of the coronavirus .
The space agency revised its astronaut selection timeline on Monday (Aug. 24), and notified the more than 12,000 people who applied in March. NASA had been planning to reveal the members of its 23rd group of astronaut candidates in June 2021. The selection has now been postponed by four to five months, according to the agency's website .
Syracuse's Epps Tapped Again for Space Travel
Southern Tier native Doug Hurley just got back from his mission , and now we have another local astronaut headed into space.
NASA has announced that Jeanette Epps , a Syracuse native, is going to be on the first manned flight of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, a new capsule. With testing on the spacecraft still to be done, the flight doesn't have a date set yet, but the three-person crew will eventually fly to the International Space Station.
Epps is a Corcoran High School grad and also went to LeMoyne College. She was supposed to fly her first mission back in 2018, but was replaced on the flight without explanation.
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Here's What Actually Happens When You Travel at the Speed of Light, According to NASA | Travel +
NASA created this fun video to answer all of our burning questions about near-light-speed Travel.
Ever wish you could travel at the speed of light to your favorite destinations? Once you see the reality of that speed, you may rethink everything.
“There are some important things you should probably know about approaching the speed of light,” NASA’s new video, Guide to Near-light-speed Travel , explains. “First, a lot of weird things can happen, like time and space getting all bent out of shape.”
10 Interesting Behind-The-Scenes Facts From The Netflix Space Drama 'Away'
Hilary Swank shines as Commander Emma Green, an American astronaut leading an international crew on a first-of-its kind mission. Josh Charles plays her husband Matt, who stays home to take care of their teenage daughter, Alexis (Talitha Bateman). Rounding out the international crew are Ato Essandoh as Kwesi, Mark Ivanir as Misha, Vivian Wu as Lu and Ray Panthaki as Ram.
As fascinating as the plot's main storyline, a three-year first-of-its-kind mission to Mars, are some behind-the-scenes facts, as well as things that happen to the human body during space travel.
Scientists Discover Exposed Bacteria Can Survive in Space for Years | Science | Smithsonian
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The study took place outside of Japan’s Kibo lab on the International Space Station. But long before Yamagishi's experiment made it into orbit, Japan’s Space Exploration Agency, JAXA, wanted his team to convince them it would succeed ahead of time. “We wanted to say, ‘We don’t know—we just have to try it.’ But this isn’t permitted for space experiments,” Yamagishi says. “So we had to consider how to persuade them.”
'Away' review: Please send Netflix's astronaut drama back into space | EW.com
Netflix's astronaut drama starring Hilary Swank and Josh Charles is grounded by too many clichés.
Away — premiering Sept. 4 on Netflix — begins on the moon, where Emma Green (Swank) and the crew of the Atlas is preparing to launch the world’s inaugural trip to Mars. The year is… actually, it's never made clear when Away takes place. Everything looks like the present day, but it's a present day where space travel to Mars is possible, and interplanetary cell service is suspiciously flawless. ("I’m calling from the moon!
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