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It's not science fiction today, but 50 years ago this repair mission would have been considered a great scifi story. Here's a link to the detailed mission timeline and NASA TV website.
Rendezvous is Wednesday morning, grapple is 11:54AM CDT. EVA #1 begins early Thursday.
If you are reading this in the future you already know the results.
LOTR fans have released "The Hunt for Gollum". The trailer is excellent, the movie is even better. Director and Executive Producer Chris Bouchard also wrote the score for yet another great fan film: "Star Wars Revelations". Since "The Hobbit" is now delayed until at least 2012 perhaps Chris and team might think about starting it ! Here are a few links to other fan fiction movies and shows.
StarTrekNewVoyages has released "Blood and Fire Part 1".
Did you ever seek "Star Wreck, in the Pirkinning?" Even though it's in Finnish it's very entertaining.
Starship Exeter has released 2 episodes.
And I just found Starship Intrepid on a google search, never heard of it before now.
Fan fiction indie movies are pretty much ready to replace Hollywood and TV. I'm sure the new Star Trek movie will be excellent and worth the $10 ticket. I'm also sure that these fan movies are worth a lot more than $0. Let's hope the movie moguls will recognize the value and start allowing fans to make a little money, at least enough to cover their expenses. Or how about offering a 50% cut to the fans in exchange for unlimited licensing? Most fans would gladly take that deal.
I plan to tone down the ads on this website and emphasize the content. So I've created the Spacetimestories Store on Amazon and plan to keep it updated with my favorite scifi books, movies, and gadgets.
Did the First Robot War almost start in June 2007 ? http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,518244,00.html
Neil Gaiman twitters Paul Cornell's blog post about how to vote for the Hugo Awards. All you have do do is join the World Science Fiction Convention and you can vote.
In addition you can download a valuable package of e-versions of many of the nominated works.
Wow! Thanks Paul and Neil
Scientists have analyzed noise in the GEO600 gravitational wave detection system and concluded it is holographic in nature. This leads them to propose that this entire universe is a holographic projection.
That is one serious projector. The computational power required to process the signals and send them to the projector probably outpaces an entire galaxy of Matrioshka brains.
Godspeed Ricardo !
Still the best of all the Star Trek movies probably because Khan Noonien Singh is the best bad guy.
Thank you Majel, for the memories, for the vision, and for helping Gene give us Star Trek. We can all find comfort in knowing in that Majel and Gene are reunited.
Here is her obituary from the LA Times.
For several years now I have been greeted at church by a pleasant older usher, never dreaming that his brother was a science fiction giant: Matt Jeffries !! Richard Jeffries has written a book about his famous brother. http://www.mattjefferies.com/wmjb.html
The book is "Beyond the Clouds"
Matt flew a "secret reconnaissance bomber" during WWII, build airplanes, designed the Enterprise (THE Enterprise), worked on many TV shows and a few movies.
I haven't read the book yet but it sounds excellent.