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Mar 20, 2012 04:41 AM ET // Ian O'Neill
The A-list celebrity will be Virgin Galactic's 500th space tourist customer -- a decision that is already generating a buzz.
Apr 2, 2012 10:03 PM ET // Ian O'Neill
As James Cameron's "Titanic" gets re-released in 3D, only one significant change has been made to the movie -- astronomers will be impressed.
Jan 2, 2010 01:54 PM ET // Ray Villard
This past holiday season's movie blockbuster Avatar was great for getting the public thinking about the possibility of extraterrestrial life. When discussing the movie on the drive home from the cinema, folks must wonder if there could be such a paradise moon as Pandora where the blue skinned Na'vi...
Jul 10, 2009 04:32 PM ET // Ian O'Neill
It's always great to come across images from historical events that you've never seen before. We've all seen the iconic fuzzy freeze frame of Neil Armstrong's "One Small Step," we've also seen Buzz Aldrin with the US flag on the lunar surface. Also, who can forget the picture of Armstrong just afte...
Sep 3, 2009 02:36 AM ET // Ian O'Neill
On Saturday, the Indian Space and Research Organization (ISRO) announced it had lost contact with the lunar satellite, Chandrayaan-1. On Sunday, I received an email from the producer of an Al Jazeera news show called Inside Story. On Monday morning, at 7am, I'm in a Culver City studio, live on Al J...
Feb 1, 2010 04:06 PM ET // Ian O'Neill
Buzz Aldrin fields questions at a Hollywood premier in 2008. Today he has issued a public statement on the realities of spaceflight (Ian O'Neill) This certainly isn't a surprise, considering Buzz Aldrin has been advocating manned missions to destinations other than the moon for some time, but it's ...
Nov 6, 2009 08:28 AM ET // Ray Villard
Today the much-hyped film, "The Fourth Kind," debuts in theaters with a predictable poster of a pair of other-worldly eyes staring out. Sci-fi film buffs will remember Steven Spielberg's sappy 1977 film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" where flying saucers outfitted with disco lights buzz lone ...
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