We're back for 2024! This week Ruby Tuesday is off the TARDIS after one season, the third and final season for Star Wars animated series The Bad Batch, a first look at spectacular combat sequences in Avatar: The Last Airbender and front row seats to the end of the world on the ISS.
An opinion piece has been published on Bloomberg about the new reality of privatised space in light of the situation with American astronaut Mark Vande Hei on the International Space Station and the Russian space agency's "joke" that they might leave him there.
He correctly describes the situation. Space is now and will increasingly be commercial. But he slips in an extremely dubious assertion.
Disney's Among the Stars is now available in Australia on Disney+.
It's a 6 part documentary following a mission to repair a malfunctioning $2 billion Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and an astronaut being appointed to command the International Space Station.
Then training in Russia, Japan and Germany, launching during COVID and joining the station. As the sole representative of America and its partners.
Also covering the arrival of SpaceX and discussing the future of space travel with commercial partnerships.
SpacePolicyOnline reports that Russian actress Yulia Peresild and film director Klim Shipenko have reached the ISS where they will shoot The Challenge.
The film's premise is that a Russian cosmonaut loses consciousness in flight and requires immediate surgery.
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LiveScience reports on a recent hearing of the US House Space and Technology Subcommittee about the future of the International Space Station. The full hearing can be viewed here.
