The Canadian actor Douglas Rain has passed away at the age of 90. While he would have probably wanted to be more remembered for his Shakespearean stage roles in the 1950s, it will be his voice that will be most missed. For he played...
Directed by Damien Chazelle and starring Ryan Gosling, First Man (2018) shows that Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong was a thoughtful, intelligent, cool-under-fire hero – but one who was also racked by personal sadness. The film was written by Josh Singer with the...
Two American aerospace and defence suppliers, L3 Technologies Inc and Harris Corporation, announced on 14 October 2018 a plan to “merge as equals”, combining their portfolios to become the sixth largest Defence company in the USA. This new company will be called “L3...
Rockets-to-electric cars billionaire Elon Musk continued to mesmerise during September in his role as chief designer and overall boss of SpaceX. This was despite suffering much criticism and bad press over his ill-judged Twitter declarations – actions he would...
While the BBC’s science fiction output of the 1970s and 1980s, Dr Who, Blake’s 7 and the comedy show Red Dwarf, always had budget-restricted creaky sets and low-rent special effects, they did the best with what they had, and their inventive story lines and...
The Royal Thai Air Force has a history going back to 1913. It operates a potent fighter/fighter bomber force including F-16, Gripen and F-5 jets. And now it is getting into space. The Royal Thai Air Force has ordered a 6U Cubesat as a reconnaissance/Earth...
