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Kelsey Weekman. July 15, 2024 at 4:37 PM. Two major movies about space travel were released in early July: Space Cadet on Prime Video on July 4, and Fly Me to the Moon in theaters on July 12. Both ...
Marooned (1969 film) Marooned. (1969 film) Marooned is a 1969 American science fiction film directed by John Sturges and starring Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna, David Janssen, James Franciscus and Gene Hackman about three astronauts who are trapped and slowly suffocating in space. [ 3] It was based on the 1964 novel Marooned by Martin Caidin.
Budget. $165 million [ 3] Box office. $705.2 million [ 3] Interstellar is a 2014 epic science fiction drama film directed by Christopher Nolan, who co-wrote the screenplay with his brother Jonathan. It stars Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Bill Irwin, Ellen Burstyn, Matt Damon, and Michael Caine.
Mission to Mars is a 2000 American science fiction adventure film directed by Brian De Palma, written by Jim Thomas, John Thomas, and Graham Yost, and suggested by Disney 's theme park attraction of the same name. [ 2] The film depicts the first crewed Mars exploration mission going awry; American astronaut Jim McConnell ( Gary Sinise) helps to ...
STS-7. STS-41-G. Mission insignia. Retirement. August 15, 1987. Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) was an American astronaut and physicist. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman and the third woman to fly in space, after cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova in 1963 and Svetlana ...
Unknown to Lowell, his surveys had captured two faint images of Pluto on March 19 and April 7, 1915, but they were not recognized for what they were. [18] [19] There are fourteen other known precovery observations, with the earliest made by the Yerkes Observatory on August 20, 1909. [20] Clyde Tombaugh, in Kansas
Neil deGrasse Tyson ( US: / dəˈɡræs / də-GRASS or UK: / dəˈɡrɑːs / də-GRAHSS; born October 5, 1958) is an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator. Tyson studied at Harvard University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Columbia University. From 1991 to 1994, he was a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton ...
Gravity. (2013 film) Gravity is a 2013 science fiction thriller film directed by Alfonso Cuarón, who also co-wrote, co-edited, and produced the film. It stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney as American astronauts who attempt to return to Earth after the destruction of their Space Shuttle in orbit.