Matt Damon’s the “Greatest botanist on this planet” in New The Martian Trailer

As we wrote the last time 20th Century Fox released a trailer for The Martian, there’s some very real science behind sending a manned mission to the red planet. A fantastic story appeared in the April 20th issue of The New Yorker, reported by Tom Kizzia, entitled “Moving to Mars,” about a group of NASA recruits who are being studied in a massive,

Retired Director of NASA’s International Space Station on Plausibility of Elysium

The idea of putting all of Earth's richest people in space permanently has its appeal. Some very much would like to go, and a few of us would like to send them there.

Is such a thing possible, though? To build a huge, permanent, self-sustaining home-off-of-home?

Director Neill Blomkamp, the man behind the fantastic aliens-as-refugees film District 9, uses that idea in his new film Elysium (which opens August 9) to explore the relationship between the have-lots and the have-nots.