In the second episode of Netflix's space drama "Away," two astronauts head outside into space to make some emergency repairs.
As if a spacewalk on a moving ship wasn't risky enough, Emma and Misha — who must stay tethered to each other to keep from floating off into space — are also at a crossroads: the latter believes the commander is unfit to lead the mission. It's an early look at how closely the 10-episode series, now streaming, weaves its interpersonal and technical dramas together for added tension.
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Netflix's Away perfectly captures the boring reality of space travel | WIRED UK
During his six month stint in orbit in 2010, American astronaut Scott Kelly accidentally started a fire in the toilet of the International Space Station.
The floating habitat's complex filtration system applies an acidic chemical known as a 'pretreat' to spacefarers' urine, and a leak in the system caused a cannonball-sized globe of this acid to leak out when Kelly opened a maintenance panel to see why the toilet wasn't working.
A floating ball of acid isn't an ideal travel companion when you're orbiting the Earth in a sealed tube, so Kelly had to act quickly. He grabbed an old t-shirt to try and soak up the acid – but the water molecules in the sweat on the shirt reacted with the acid, creating a fireball.
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That wasn't the first time literature imagined a trip to the moon: in Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (1516), the knight Astolfo flies to the moon in search of Orlando's lost wits. Cyrano de Bergerac's satirical novel The Other World: Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon dates back to the 17th century, and in 1857 Italian astronomer Ernest Capocci wrote a novel about the first journey to the moon, which he imagined undertaken in 2057 by a woman named Urania.
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On Friday, Netflix is launching its latest venture into the great frontier of astronaut fiction. Away , a 10-part series starring Hilary Swank and Josh Charles, chronicles a multinational mission that aims to land the first human on Mars. If that sounds familiar, it should; we're in a bit of a renaissance—a space race, even—for near-future spacefaring fiction.
Away is the third TV drama in the past four years to tackle a journey to the red planet, after National Geographic's creatively titled Mars and Hulu's The First , both of which followed on the success of the 2015 adaptation of The Martian . In late July, Apple TV+ released the teaser for Season 2 of its alternate-history NASA drama For All Mankind , and mere weeks from now, Disney+ will debut The Right Stuff , a limited series adaptation of Tom Wolfe's 1979 book about Project
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What security pros can learn from space travel | SC Media
The tech industry could learn a lot from these brave men and women. Astronauts put trust in their teammates, just as customers put their trust in cybersecurity tools to protect the critical data of their organization, customers, employees and other stakeholders.
A successful identity governance program helps organizations answer some critical questions: Who has access to what data? Who should have access? How are they using that access? The impact of a strong program happens instantaneously, and the benefits are threefold: security, productivity and cost:
Supporting 'the next giant leap': Promontory rocket motor test advances US space travel plans |
NASA and Northrop Grumman successfully conducted a full-scale static fire test of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket motor, known as Flight Support Booster (FSB-1), in Promontory, Utah, on Sept. 2.
A fiery blast and towering cloud of smoke briefly interrupted the clear desert air of Box Elder County last week, marking another milestone in plans to return Americans to the Moon and deeper into outer space.
On the afternoon of Wednesday, Sept. 2, NASA and Northrop Grumman Corp. joined forces at Northrop Grumman's Promontory campus, where they conducted a full-scale static fire test of NASA's Space Launch System rocket motor. Because of the pandemic, the typical crowds weren't there to cheer it on, but officials said the test was successful.
Why Star Wars Should Do A Movie Without Space Travel - CINEMABLEND
Additionally, interplanetary travel has been a staple of nearly every Star Wars story on television and film. Obviously it's a formula that works, but space travel and battles are something that the franchise has leaned on so heavily, I can't help but imagine what a Star Wars film would be without it. In a time when Star Wars is taking a hard look at where it's been, and where it's headed, I'd like to run through the strengths of doing a franchise entry without space travel.
NASA Is Becoming Cool Again Thanks To Elon Musk And SpaceX
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Of course, space was super-cool in the 1960s, when some 600 million people around the world tuned in to watch the first Moon mission. The Space Shuttle program, which ran from 1981 to 2011, made some important advances, but never attained the same coolness level somehow.
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