Although the designs for the space shuttles in Moonraker matched what NASA was doing at the time, the Moonraker shuttles weren’t actually built by the government in the film’s storyline. Instead, they ...

Moonraker was the eleventh James Bond movie and was released in 1979. When the Moonraker shuttle gets hijacked in mid-flight, M16 sends James Bond (Roger Moore) to investigate. Moonraker was directed ...

Moonraker was meant to coincide with the launch of NASA’s first space shuttle orbiter, Columbia. However, many of Columbia’s ceramic heat shield tiles had to be replaced, delaying its maiden launch by ...

It’s the James Bond movie in which Roger Moore’s 007 has sex in zero gravity, in outer space, while the Queen watches back home via a satellite transmission. “My God, what is Bond doing?” M splutters.

The space shuttle Endeavour arrived in Los Angeles on Friday, flying atop a modified 747 over landmarks such as Disneyland, the Getty Center and the Griffith Observatory before landing at Los Angeles ...

I wonder how people at NASA feel about being at the mercy of Elon Musk. Are they nostalgic about the good old days when Hitler’s rocket engineers helped them put Neil Armstrong on the moon? Being used ...

This week marks the end of NASA's space shuttle program. The Atlantis, the last of the shuttles to be retired, launched into space Friday morning from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, ending a 30-year ...

Derek Meddings and his team received an Academy Award nomination for Best Visual Effects on Moonraker. The miniature fleet of space shuttles featured in the film’s climax was filmed on the 007 Stage, ...