Tag: Space Movies & Shows

The Great Lunar Armada – 2025 Will Be a Big Year Moon Missions – YouTube Watch On On Episode 144 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik take a look a pair of private moon missions by Firefly Aerospace and ispace that lifted off this week and so much more. 2025 is the year that introduces the Great Lunar Armada! A small fleet of private and publicly-funded orbiters, landers, and rovers are heading off to explore Luna Incognita this year, and it will only speed up after…

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If you wanted to assemble a time capsule of late 1970s pop culture, the original “Battlestar Galactica” would be a good place to start. Not only was it an unashamed attempt to cash in on the record-breaking success of “Star Wars” — to the extent that George Lucas’s lawyers wrote some very angry letters — the disco stylings of Glen A. Larson’s big-budget TV space opera tie it to a very specific time in history. The show’s wholesome family values, robot dogs, and kitschy, “Saturday Night Fever”-esque fashions always jarred…

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2025 in Space – The Year’s Most Anticipated Space Missions & Developments – YouTube Watch On On Episode 142 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk about 2025 in space! It’s going to be an exciting year, kicking off with the first launch attempt for Blue Origin’s New Glenn heavy booster and another test flight of Starship. Then we’ll see a new asteroid sampling mission from China, the first test flight of Blue Origin’s Blue Moon lander to the moon, and the launch of the first-ever…

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It’s a wrap. Or should that be a warp? The final episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks has aired and with it, the USS Cerritos’s five-year mission to explore strange corners of canon, to seek out new gags and comedic situations, to boldly go where no “Star Trek” has gone before has come to an end. So, in honor of the voyages of Starfleet’s second contact specialists, we’ve picked out 25 of the best ‘Trek’ callbacks from the show’s five-season run — everything from whales in Starfleet to the infamous…

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Okay, every year is a big year for sci-fi these days, but 2025 is looking particularly exciting. Outer space is set to be a major theme in Hollywood this year, whether you’re watching in the cinema or at home on your personal viewscreen (sorry, TV). Most of the major franchises will be represented, with “Andor”‘s second season taking us back to the grittier corners of that galaxy far, far away, and “Strange New Worlds” season 3 and TV movie “Section 31” representing “Star Trek”‘s final frontier. In the world of…

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The TARDIS is as much a part of Christmas as turkey, mince pies, and mulled wine, and former “Doctor Who” showrunner Steven Moffat certainly knows his way around a festive adventure. This year’s holiday offering, “Joy to the World”, is the writer’s ninth, and it comes with all the trimmings you’d expect. Alongside the obligatory festive moments, Moffat (the brains behind “Blink”, “The Girl in the Fireplace” and “Heaven Sent”) brings his trademark clockwork plotting to the holiday party. In “Joy to the World”, the Doctor spends Christmas in the…

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‘Doctor Who’: Joy to the World’ Key information • Date: Wednesday, December 25, 2025• UK: Watch for FREE on BBC iPlayer• US and elsewhere: Watch on Disney Plus• Away from home: Use a VPN such as NordVPN to watch your usual service from anywhere “Doctor Who: Joy to the World” continues the veteran sci-fi show’s two-decade run as a Christmas TV institution. The Time Lord has been a fixture of the BBC’s festive schedules ever since 2005’s “The Christmas Invasion”, and this year is no different. The last time we…

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Holiday Special 2024 – TWiS Crew’s Childhood Space Obsessions – YouTube Watch On On Episode 141 of This Week In Space, are joined by producer Anthony and our old pal Ant Pruitt to celebrate and discuss a wide variety of topics, from first space memories to our favorite space toys to what spaceflight means to each of us. It’s a warm “family reunion” you won’t want to miss! Join us for some holiday cheer, and Tariq’s “Tiny Tim” moment… Download or subscribe to this show at: https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-space. Get episodes ad-free…

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University Rocketeers – USC’s Rocket Lab Smash the Amateur Altitude Record – YouTube Watch On On Episode 140 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Dr. Dan Erwin and student Ryan Kraemer about amateur rocketry. Many of us flew model rockets as young people, but USC Rocket Propulsion Lab takes amateur rocketry to a whole new level–in this case, 470,000 feet!  Meet Erwin and Kraemer, who, along with a very talented team of other undergrads, built and flew Aftershock II, a 14-foot, 330-pound “amateur” rocket…

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Ever wondered what happened to Bradward Boimler’s transporter duplicate? We already knew his death was faked by Section 31 and now we know the reason why: he’s leaping between multiverses as if he’s Doctor Strange, trying to stop whatever — or whoever — is tearing rifts between dimensions. And who else to accompany him on this mission but a crack team of operatives plucked from previous “Star Trek”s, alternative universe duplicates who bring their own unique set of skills to the job in hand. “Fissure Quest” is the latest super-smart…

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