NASA - A Human Adventure review

I've just visited the new NASA exhibition in Milan and it's beautiful, it's called "NASA - A Human Adventure" and it is in the suburbs of the city, it includes spacecraft and rover replicas, vintage merchandise, a g-force training simulator and a fantastic bookstore, but it's not so cheap!

If you live in Milan or you want to visit Milan until March 2018, the exhibition is in via privata Giovanni Ventura, 15 (CAP 20134).

Sci-Fi & Co.

Hello! May the Force be with you! Live long and prosper! Exterminate! Here's the new trailer for this blog. I posted it on YouTube a few days ago.

Doctor Who: I'm Gonna Spend My Christmas With a Dalek

A famous "Dalekmania" period song inspired by Doctor Who and by the Doctor's worst enemies since 1963: the Daleks.

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017) review

I just saw in a theater the new cinematic adaptation of the Valérian and Laureline comics, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, which is a very good film. Probably, the best scene is the initial sequence about space cooperation at the rythm of David Bowie's "Space Oddity".
The film includes many historical references, such as the 1975 Apollo–Soyuz Test Project, the fact that Alpha (the titular "City of a Thousand Planets") is really the International Space Station, the Destiny 2005 spacecraft (an Apollo CSM).

Orbiter 2016 review

I downloaded the new version of Martin Schweiger's famous spaceflight simulator Orbiter, titled Orbiter 2016. It's very realistic in almost all the aspects, except for collisions and air pressurization. One of the most beutiful aspects of Orbiter is that you can learn the C++ programming, which is used by many users to create new spacecraft, characters, vehicles, and celestial bodies.

One of Orbiter's bad aspects is that it's very slow to download, and, if you want to dowload it, you must download a downloading software, which is a little slow to download, too.

MALICE: 1999 - Special Episode

This is a marvelous 2012 standalone episode of the Malice webseries. It is set during the end of the Space: 1999 Year One episode "Breakaway", but on the Meta Probe and a Mark IX Hawk.

Rediscovering "Star Wars"

I just read on Rebelscum.com, a famous Star Wars-themed website, at its page, that Dr. David West Reynolds, a famous Star Wars book author, launched a 30-day-long Kickstarter project to film a documentary titled "The Archaeology of Star Wars", which target is to rediscover the remains of Mos Eisley, Mos Espa, the Tosche Station, the Lars farm and the other locations in the Sahara desert used to film the scenes on the desert planet of Tatooine.

Many of these scenes from Star Wars (now Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, 1977) and Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999) were filmed beetween Libya and Tunisia and, during the filming of the 1977 film, when George Lucas and his crew were filming the scenes with the Jawa sandcrawler on the desertic border, the Libyan military ordered that the vehicle was ransacked because they thinked it was a sort of tank or a bomb vehicle from Tunisia!