Directed by Al Reinert and featuring a stunning soundtrack composed by Brian Eno, the thrilling For All Mankind is perhaps the best ever feature-length documentary made about NASA's Apollo programme. Originally released in 1989 – two decades after the Apollo 11 moon landing – it's...
Strange unexplained phenomena occurred in the backstreets of London's King's Cross last month and Space Rocks was there to witness it… We couldn't have chosen a better headline band for Space Rocks London 2018 than John Mitchell's Lonely Robot. Having successfully compromised the O2's structural integrity...
If you're wondering what Space Rocks is all about, then we invite you to look at our debut Space Rocks London event, which took place on April 22nd, 2018 at the indigo at the 02 Arena in London, where scientists, astronauts, musicians, artists, and a...
Every fan of sci fi films knows that it's rare that big-budget Hollywood vehicles throw up any new ideas while the Indie field is littered with revolutionary ones a little less fleshed out, and so it's a delight to see a film like Prospect get...
Yes indeed, Space Rocks is proud to bring you the very best in space-related soundtracks with playlists lovingly curated by the great and good of Space Rocks crew members. You can find them all on Spotify at Space Rocks. Check out top ESA scientist Mark...
At precisely 12:33EST/05:33GMT on January 1st, NASA's New Horizons probe will pass by Ultima Thule wayyy out in the Kuiper Belt an unbelievable 6.62 billion km away. We were kindly invited to witness it all going down at the John Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, so...
Today marks 50 years since Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders snapped Earthrise, a photo that would change the world. Read all about it here, and travel back in time with this selection of US and UK radio chart-toppers from December 24th, 1968! #spacelist #spotify https://open.spotify.com/user/jj0oczbmhtlalwqb5lnnsqnkt/playlist/4jnRUsvZjBZdXExHRCMrqW?si=Ym2E9jguR7W3lrVkpJKqDA...
There aren't many bigger rock bands than Muse, and there aren't many bands with a greater love of space and sci fi either. With the release of their latest Simulation Theory album we thought it was time we take a trip through time with one...
SPACELIST ALERT! From the announcement of Luna, ESA's giant lunar replica facility to the release of the London Stereoscopic Company's amazing Mission Moon 3-D book by Brian May and David J. Eicher, it's time we did a lunar playlist! What'd we miss? #spacerocks #spacelist https://open.spotify.com/user/jj0oczbmhtlalwqb5lnnsqnkt/playlist/1dp1AGBMqTOQM94W5CzpLh?si=XIpmdiKhRuKngumWMUzqjw...
With the successful launch of the Ariane 5 VA245 early on the morning of October 19th, a combination of gravity assists and a powerful solar electric propulsion system will speed BepiColombo towards Mercury, the least explored of our solar system's terrestrial planets! It will arrive...