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A half a century ago tomorrow, Apollo 11 landed on the Moon with a pledge that they "came in peace for all mankind." As seemingly all of the human race watched, six hours after the Eagle had landed, Neil Armstrong took that remarkable "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" and became the first person to…

Morgan Neville, Imagine Documentaries, and Peanuts have teamed for Peanuts in Space: Secrets of Apollo 10, a documentary of sorts that seeks to answer the question: Was Snoopy a world famous, top-secret astronaut? It will launch in May will be available in May on the Apple TV app. Aaron Bergeron wrote the…

Before Brie Larson blasts off into space in Marvel’s forthcoming Captain Marvel, she’ll be taking another intergalactic adventure in the virtual reality series Space Explorers: A New Dawn. The Academy Award-winning actress will narrate the first two episodes of the VR series from Felix & Paul Studios. Produced in…

Lucicreide Goes To Mars starring Brazilian comedian Fabiana Karla has become the first production — and Brazil Production Services the first company — to be cleared by NASA to film with a drone at the Kennedy Space Center as well as the first feature to record there since the 1998 blockbuster film, Armageddon. One of…

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Science and Technology Council is bringing NASA scientists to Hollywood. The Council will hold a panel called “Hidden Figures/Modern Figures: A Journey of Breakthroughs in Cinema and Space Travel” with NASA, on Wednesday, November 29, at 7:30PM at the Samuel Goldwyn…

Too bad the recent solar eclipse isn’t a regular TV series. NASA might be able to fund a trip to Mars based on the ads. The space agency claimed its hours-long live broadcast on its main website and via social media was its biggest online event ever, garnering 40 million total views. The agency had 12.1 million unique…

Move over Lego Batman, there’s a new superhero in town: former NASA physicist/mathematician Katherine Johnson. The real-life heroine is one of the subjects of Fox’s Best Picture Oscar nominee Hidden Figures and now she’s getting her own Lego figure as part of the Women of NASA set that’s won the Lego Ideas design…

EXCLUSIVE: Hidden Figures, the Chernin Entertainment/20th Century Fox film that goes wide today, is a story that took 55 years to be told. Coming off last year’s #OscarsSoWhite controversy, this year could turn into Oscar so Right with director Ted Melfi and Allison Schroeder’s film adaptation of the Margot Lee…

Author and former NASA engineer Homer Hickam is suing Universal for north of $20M over its October Sky musical. In a breach of contract, fraud and multi-claim jury-seeking complaint filed today, the Rocket Boys memoirist claims that Universal Pictures "has taken the completely fallacious position" that Hickam gave…

ABC initially ordered The Astronaut Wives Club straight to series, but its journey to the small screen has been perilous. The NASA-based drama that's set to premiere June 18 has been retooled and delayed since its pickup in early 2014, You'd think all the extra time and tweaking would pay off. It doesn’t. As I say in…

Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon whose Apollo 11 mission was portrayed in HBO’s miniseries From the Earth To The Moon and again in Universal’s Apollo 13, has died. He was 82. Armstrong appeared in multiple documentaries about the space program during his life, most recently in the Emmy-nominated When W…