Science Fiction Ratatouille

President Obama delivered his budget request for fiscal year 2011 to Congress on Monday, proposing sweeping changes to NASA’s spaceflight program while increasing the agency’s overall budget. As had been rumored for days , Obama’s blueprint for NASA would cancel the Constellation program , the family of rockets and hardware now in development to replace the aging space shuttle, and would call instead on commercial vendors to fly astronauts to orbit. [More]

Learn all about NASA’s plans to return humans to the moon and beyond in this new show. Credit: NASA.

You know what actors say when they can’t land a role, due to typecasting or some other karmic quirk? They say—”I can’t get arrested in this town!”

Well, some sci-fi stars … can.

First it was Mega Shark vs. The Giant Octopus, then snakes on a sub, and now Hansel is out to avenge the death of his sister – but there’s a surprise waiting for him when he revisits that gingerbread cottage in the forest!
Yep, Syfy is going down the wooded fairy tale path but you can bet these won’t be the kind of bedtime stories you’re used to hearing. Think Alice. Think Tin Man, and then forget it. We’re talking Syfy Saturday Original Movies – the modern version of the old B-flick and mock if you will, but these movies are [...]

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Vampires, aliens, Cylons and more—the latest sci-fi TV shows have something for everyone. But which something is your favorite something? Which series has become appointment TV?

Astronomers can now share universe simulations in real-time thanks to new supercomputer software.

Here’s something cool on the eve of the sixth-season premiere of ABC’s Lost: an interactive timeline, with video and audio references, of the show’s history, stretching back to the 19th century.

According to science fiction, we were supposed to have a moon base by 2001 and were supposed to have a joint U.S.-Soviet manned mission to Jupiter to make contact by this year, 2010. (That’s not to mention flying cars and personal jet packs, but we digress.)

Well, kiss all those dreams goodbye, at least as far as the U.S. government and NASA is concerned.

Farscape creator Rockne S. O’Bannon has a Twitter feed, and he’s been busy updating it with teasers for his comic book and the much-anticipated webisode sequel series:

Director Joe Johnston is revealing a bit more about the preproduction on his upcoming Marvel Comics superhero movie The First Avenger: Captain America, including which versions of Cap will figure in the movie adaptation.