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The iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max may have only arrived yesterday but developers are already dreaming up fun and interesting use cases for Apple’s new Dynamic Island interface. Take Apollo creator Christian Selig, for instance. On Friday, he updated his Reddit client to implement support for “Pixel Pals.” The feature adds a Tamagotchi-like critter […]
NASA NASA’s Apollo missions in the late 1960s and early 1970s succeeded in putting the first humans on the moon. Apollo 8, the first mission to orbit the moon, launched almost exactly 50 years ago — on December 21, 1968. Humans have not stepped foot on the moon in more than 45 years. But NASA […]
Luke Cage showrunner Cheo Hodari Coker spoke with /Film by phone this week about the second season of his show. We’ll bring you the full interview next week, but during the interview, we got to ask him about writing the sequel to Creed, which brings back Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren), with a son of his […]
It’s a somber day for spaceflight, as NASA astronaut Alan Bean has died at the age of 86 after falling ill during a trip. He was the fourth person to walk on the Moon, flying aboard Apollo 12, and proved crucial to humanity’s understanding of its closest celestial neighbor. He was the only geologist to […]
Video shot by Joshua Ballinger, edited and produced by Jing Niu and David Minick. Transcript coming soon. (video link) “I believe that this nation should commit itself,” stated a boyish President John F. Kennedy before a packed-to-the-rafters joint session of Congress in 1961, “to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a […]
Video shot by Joshua Ballinger, edited and produced by Jing Niu and David Minick. Click here for transcript. (video link) As Apollo 13 astronaut Fred Haise floated in the tunnel snaking between the Lunar Module and Command Module, he heard—and felt—a loud bang. Around him, the two vehicles began to contort. Then, the metal walls […]
Video shot by Joshua Ballinger, edited and produced by Jing Niu and David Minick. Click here for transcript. (video link) We have two parts left in “The Greatest Leap,” our celebration of 50 years of Apollo. Next Tuesday will bring us to one of the most important events in the history of human space flight: […]
Our Apollo documentary is back, but you can catch up with parts 1, 2, and 3 quickly. Video shot by Joshua Ballinger, edited and produced by Jing Niu and David Minick. Click here for transcript. (video link) As inevitably happens in August, a sweltering heat with the tactility of dog’s breath had come over Houston […]
Video shot by Joshua Ballinger, edited and produced by Jing Niu and David Minick. Click here for transcript. (video link) Christmas is over, the new year has started, and we’re all back at work at the Ars Orbiting HQ. This means that it’s time to pick back up with part four of “The Greatest Leap,” our […]
Video shot by Joshua Ballinger, edited and produced by Jing Niu and David Minick. Click here for transcript. (video link) By the summer of 1968, a sense of deep unease had engulfed the American republic. Early in the year, the Tet Offensive smashed any lingering illusions of a quick victory in the increasingly bloody Vietnam […]
