Ben Branch
May 8, 2019
This Speedmaster Skywalker X-33 flew to the International Space Station aboard the Japanese space freighter HTV-6 which launched on the 9th of December 2016 on the wrist of ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet’s as part…
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Ben Branch
December 20, 2018
The NASA Apollo Saturn V Rocket Building Kit is over 1 meter high (3.2 feet or 39 inches) when fully assembled, impressively it has a removable first and second stage that contain a model of…
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Ben Branch
August 17, 2018
Anyone who’s ever had an argument with Siri or Alexa will already be familiar with the parallels to HAL 9000 – the prescience of the digital Arthur C. Clarke character has proven to be…
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Ben Branch
July 6, 2018
The HJC IS-5 X-Wing Fighter Pilot Helmet is A DOT-approved motorcycle helmet designed to look a lot like the helmets worn by the rebel X-Wing pilots from the original films. The X-Wing first appeared…
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Ben Branch
July 5, 2018
The Werenbach Model 1 is a Swiss-made automatic watch with a face made from a Soyuz rocket booster that’s been launched, before being recovered somewhere on the Siberian tundra. Each Soyuz is fitted with…
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Ben Branch
June 16, 2018
The NASA Saturn V Owners’ Workshop Manual is a comprehensive guide to the world’s most famous rocket, best known for its role in sending the Apollo missions, including Apollo 11, to the Moon. Each…
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Ben Branch
April 21, 2018
The LeviMoon holds the distinction of being the world’s first levitating moon lamp, it was developed by the team at Coocepts to realistically portray the lunar surface – though as this desk-based moon isn’t…
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Ben Branch
March 22, 2018
The Voyager Golden Record LP Box Set was developed as an Earth-bound companion for the famous golden records contained within both the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 space probes launched in 1977. As of…
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Ben Branch
March 1, 2018
These NASA Space Tourism Posters were developed by a creative team of visual strategists inside JPL known as “The Studio”. Altogether there are 9 artists, designers, and illustrators, and they worked alongside Jet Propulsion…
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Ben Branch
July 6, 2016
The Soviet Union launched Sputnik-1 on October the 5th, 1957 and in so doing kicked the Space Race into high gear – where it would remain for over a decade until the Americans landed…
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Ben Branch
March 31, 2016
A Century In The Sky is a timeline of the history of Boeing, the American aerospace giant that’s turning 100 years old this year. The 20th century saw the invention of powered flight in 1903,…
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Ben Branch
March 22, 2016
Hans Jenssen is a staggeringly talented artist who was contracted by the team behind Star Wars in 1997 to create a series of hand-drawn illustrations of the inner engineering of various Star Wars vehicles…
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