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President Barack Obama recently spoke about his love for Star Trek. The president was Wired’s guest editor for the month of November, and chose...
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President Barack Obama recently spoke about his love for Star Trek. The president was Wired’s guest editor for the month of November, and chose...
In a new video released by NASA, the links between Star Trek and the International Space Station are explored. The video features Star Trek‘s...
Nichelle Nichols, who played the original Uhura on Star Trek, is set to be part of an upcoming NASA mission. As hinted at during...
International Space Station astronaut Terry Virts (@AstroTerry) tweeted a fantastic photo of him giving a Vulcan hand salute from orbit as a tribute to...
On Saturday, NASA awarded Star Trek’s original Captain Kirk, William Shatner, with the Distinguished Public Service Medal, at his annual Hollywood Charity Horse Show...
On Thursday morning, Star Trek Into Darkness writer/producer Damon Lindelof and stars Chris Pine, Alice Eve and John Cho talked with NASA astronaut Chris...
In a recent interview with Business Insider, world-renowned astrophysicist, Star Talk Radio host and admitted Trekkie, Neil deGrasse Tyson discussed the age-old battle of...
‘Vulcan’ could be the name of Pluto’s recently discovered moons. The name, which Star Trek fans will know as Spock’s home planet, is currently...
Following an earth-to-space Twitter exchange last month, William Shatner spoke to Flight Engineer Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency, who is currently aboard...
In a new video, Star Trek‘s Leonard Nimoy explains NASA’s Dawn Mission, which launched a spacecraft in 2007 destined for the asteroid belt. The...
Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, as part of NASA’s Apollo 11 mission, has died at the age of 82....
On Sunday, August 5th, NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity landed safely on Mars a few hours ahead of schedule, despite some minor complications....
To boldly go where no man has gone before… In continuation of NASA’s tradition of extending Man’s reach beyond the confines of Earth and...
William Shatner and Wil Wheaton have both submitted their narration for a new NASA video which explains the descent and landing sequence of a...
Last week, we discussed the reproductive nature of tribbles and what it implies about their evolution: they likely live in a state of stagnant...
On Tuesday May 22nd, SpaceX launched the Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral, Florida carrying James “Scotty” Doohan’s cremated remains into space along with those...
Perhaps one of the cutest, and most annoying, creatures on Star Trek, tribbles were first revealed on the Original Series. In the episode “The...
On Friday, the Shuttle Enterprise landed in New York City mounted atop a Boeing 747 jumbo jet at 11:22 AM (EDT), after taking off...
Surely, fans of Star Trek: The Next Generation will remember LeVar Burton’s character, Geordi La Forge, one of the show’s most influential and inspiring...
Bolians were primarily featured as minor characters in Deep Space Nine, The Next Generation, and Voyager. Their personae often ranged from cowardly to greedy,...
Back in August, I wrote a detailed scientific critique of one of Star Trek’s more elusive technological concepts: the tractor beam; the ability to...
Recently, we reported on the Roddenberry Foundation’s 5-million-dollar gift to the Gladstone Institute at the University of California, San Francisco to build a new...