Science Fiction Archives - SpaceNews https://spacenews.com/tag/science-fiction/ Covering the business and politics of space Thu, 10 Jul 2025 16:52:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://spacenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/cropped-SN_forza_star-32x32.png Science Fiction Archives - SpaceNews https://spacenews.com/tag/science-fiction/ 32 32 80681979 What if science fiction is our best glimpse of the future?  https://spacenews.com/what-if-science-fiction-is-our-best-glimpse-of-the-future/ https://spacenews.com/what-if-science-fiction-is-our-best-glimpse-of-the-future/#respond Thu, 10 Jul 2025 13:13:59 +0000 https://spacenews.com/?p=528083 David Brin

In this week’s episode of Space Minds, award-winning science fiction author and physicist David Brin joins host David Ariosto for a wide-ranging conversation on the future of space, science, and humanity.

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]]> https://spacenews.com/what-if-science-fiction-is-our-best-glimpse-of-the-future/feed/ 0 528083 In Slingshot, a mission to Titan goes off course https://spacenews.com/in-slingshot-a-mission-to-titan-goes-off-course/ https://spacenews.com/in-slingshot-a-mission-to-titan-goes-off-course/#respond Tue, 10 Sep 2024 13:00:00 +0000 https://spacenews.com/?p=505536 Casey Affleck and Laurence Fishburne embark on a mission to Titan in Slingshot. Credit: Bluestone Entertainment Production

Voyager. Cassini. Juice. All three spacecraft performed gravity assists around Jupiter to accelerate their trajectory through the solar system. Would humans use the same technique? What could possibly go wrong […]

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