The prolific voice actor Billy West, who played more than 100 characters on Matt Groening's cult classic sci-fi comedy cartoon Futurama, has lent the voice of Zapp Brannigan to a real-world figure almost as audacious as the pant-less spaceship captain: Donald Trump.
Their goal is less about spaceship-driving robots and more about improving voice-controlled helpers such as Apple's Siri and Microsoft's Cortana.No matter how good voice-recognition software becomes, it will always be hostage to its sonic environment.
Spaceship parts are less accessible, and slow, clumsy insects give way to those that breath fire or throw rocks.
But with spaceships now costing less than a Formula 1 racing car, and having the interest of a variety of deep-pocketed investors, it shouldn't take that long.
China is also developing a cargo spaceship, which will weigh less than 13 tonnes and have a diameter of no more than 3.35 metres, to transport supplies and equipment to the space station.
The number of times it's feasible to re-use craft for Mars, versus flying commercial on Earth, is less, since you can use the spaceship part only every two years.
So although it might take 22 or many more years of Earth-time to get there, subjectively on the spaceship, it could take less. .
This movement basically "throws" spaceships into distant locations using less fuel.
Wearing the device that will hit shelves in less than six months, I sat in a spaceship, gazing around at the cavernous hanger within which it sat.
While the stage is peopled by futuristic mannequins and a spaceship hangs from the ceiling, Dammers is less interested in Sun Ra's sci-fi trappings than in his music's revolutionary and emotional power.
Less clear timing-wise are early tests for the spaceship section of SpaceX's BFR project.
