In 1984, during the third quarter of Superbowl XVIII, Apple aired its infamous
advert [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_(advertisement)], directed by Ridley
Scott, to launch the Apple Macintosh, and proclaimed that
Without Pavel Klushantsev, Kubrick might never have made 2001.
In 1954, Klushantsev, pioneering Soviet sci-fi film director, began working on a
short film, part-documentary, part-visionary projection, about the Soviet
conquest of space. The
Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov [http://www.astronautix.com/astros/komarov.htm]
was the first man to die in space.
The Russian cosmonaut died aboard Soyuz 1 on April 24th, 1967, which crashed on
its
This page on the BBC web site [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8056443.stm],
reminds us that today is the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 10 mission, the
penultimate
Joe Kittinger was the man who fell to earth.
In 1960, Kittinger, USAF test pilot, ascended to an altitude of 30Km, in a
high-altitude helium balloon, before stepping into the void. Kittinger fell
