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Lost in Space is a 1998 American science-fiction adventure film directed by Stephen Hopkins, and starring William Hurt, Matt LeBlanc, Gary Oldman, and Heather Graham. The plot is adapted from the 1965–1968 CBS television series of the same name (itself inspired by the 1812 novel The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss ).
Many star names are, in origin, descriptive of the part in the constellation they are found in; thus Phecda, a corruption of Arabic فخذ الدب ( fakhdh ad-dubb, 'thigh of the bear'). Only a handful of the brightest stars have individual proper names not depending on their asterism; so Sirius ('the scorcher'), Antares ('rival of Ares ', i.e ...
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) When Qo'noS ' moon Praxis (the Klingon Empire's chief energy source) is devastated by an explosion, caused by over-mining, the catastrophe also contaminating Qo'noS' atmosphere, the Klingons make peace overtures to the Federation.
Messiah – an Orion spacecraft designed to prevent a comet hitting Earth in the 1998 film Deep Impact. Nightflyer – craft from the American horror science fiction television series Nightflyers [25] Odyssey – spacecraft designed to visit Saturn 's moon Titan in the 2013 film Oblivion.
The International Space Station has been featured in several films, including Challenge, Yolki 5, Gravity, The Day After Tomorrow, Love, A Beautiful Planet and Space Station 3D. There is a body of films that feature space stations. Science fiction films are the most popular genre to have featured both real-life space stations such as the ...
Hidden Figures is a 2016 American biographical drama film directed by Theodore Melfi and written by Melfi and Allison Schroeder.It is loosely based on the 2016 non-fiction book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly about three female African-American mathematicians: Katherine Goble Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer), and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe), who worked ...
Jesse Jackson (one segment): Civil rights activist Jackson recited the free verse poem "I Am – Somebody" to numerous children and adult gathered around him on 123 Sesame Street. Mahalia Jackson. Randy Jackson demonstrates the word "glockenspiel" with a dog. Samuel L. Jackson. Kevin James. Allison Janney.
Cover of Sci-Fi magazine, Imagination, April 1958. The following is a list of space opera media.Space opera is a subgenre of science fiction that David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer define as "colorful, dramatic, large-scale science fiction adventure, competently and sometimes beautifully written, usually focused on a sympathetic, heroic central character and plot action, and usually set in ...