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‘Flight originated from the imagination’: how artists have captured space travel
As the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum turns 50, an expansive exhibition celebrates how art has coincided with spaceWearing a shiny silver spacesuit, Alan Shepard clutches his helmet and looks like an archetypal blue-eyed American hero. The 1961 portrait by Bruce Stevenson paid tribute to the first US astronaut in space. It also planted…
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Gina Rinehart’s bold call to gift Elon Musk an island in Australia for ‘no cost’ as list emerges of potential sites to launch his SpaceX rockets
Queensland Premier David Crisafulli has not ruled out the proposal.
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17 Years Later, the Best Sci-Fi Movie You’ve Never Watched Is Officially Streaming Free
Sam Rockwell’s acclaimed sci-fi movie by Duncan Jones, Moon, is now streaming free this July. Here’s where to watch it.
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Australia Wins Seventh Women’s T20 World Cup Title with Dominant Victory over England at Lord’s
Australia has won the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup for a seventh time, beating England in the final at Lord’s to reaffirm their status as the dominant force in the women’s game. Chasing England’s total of 151, Australia reached their target with seven wickets to spare, controlling the contest from start to finish to lift…
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Mooney guides Australia to World Cup win with ‘match-winning’ innings
Beth Mooney proved her experience in an emphatic batting performance for Australia, scoring 64 to demolish England in the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup Final at Lord’s.
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Princess Diana’s honeymoon letter reveals a young bride ‘playing with grown-ups’ in the royal family
Princess Diana's childhood friend Katherine Hanbury is auctioning letters and photos, including a honeymoon letter revealing Diana's early royal life.
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Infuriating Google commercial imagines the founding fathers embracing AI
“Group project, but make it 1776.” That’s how a new commercial for Google Workspace opens. And things only get cringier from there. The clip imagines what it would be like if the founding fathers turned to Google’s collaboration tools and Gemini to help them draft the Declaration of Independence. Ben Franklin texts Thomas Jefferson to…
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Life Out There review – astronauts search for meaning in atmospheric space oddity
Lowry, SalfordThese lonely travellers overlap with Bowie’s Maj Tom, Ryan Gosling in Project Hail Mary or Spielberg’s Disclosure Day as they contemplate our place in the vastness of the voidFrom David Bowie’s Maj Tom and Elton John’s Rocketman via Capt Oates in Tom Stoppard’s Jumpers to this summer’s Ryan Gosling movie Project Hail Mary, the…
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The Sci-Fi Disaster That Grossed Less Than Half Its $150M Budget Lands on Prime Video
Roland Emmerich’s big-budget sci-fi bomb starring Patrick Wilson and Halle Berry, Moonfall, is now streaming on Prime Video.