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The 26 for 26 Project
Howdy. Chris here. This post is going to be a little off the beaten path from what we usually do here at Take Back the Sky, but as an educator, I wanted to share something that affected me very...
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We Are Not Alone…
On January 7, Duncan Law-Green made our New Year very shiny when he tweeted us to let us know about a post on rocketeers.co.uk dated April 9, 2013. The topic was a fascinating piece of fan art done by...
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Take Back the Sky at Can’t Stop the Serenity Pittsburgh 2014
We here at Take Back the Sky are all manner of excited to announce that we will be a part of Can’t Stop the Serenity Pittsburgh again this year. CSTS Pittsburgh has graciously allowed Take Back the Sky...
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How We’ll Take Back the Sky in 2015
“Well… here I am.” — Jubal Early, Firefly “Objects in Space” Yes, here we are. Another year is behind us, and a new year lies ahead. If you haven’t already, it’s a pretty safe bet that over the next...
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By a Browncoat, for Browncoats: Firefly Cargo Bay
If you’ve visited the Take Back the Sky table at a convention in the past two years, you’ve no doubt seen the Independents flags we always have flying as part of our display. Those flags are the work...
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Can’t Stop the Serenity: Browncoats Doing Good Works Raise One Million...
This year marks the 10th anniversary of a worldwide shindig that originally started as a way to ensure that Joss Whedon’s epic science-fiction film Serenity could be seen on the big screen every year,...
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“Remember…”
Leonard Nimoy (center, as if you needed to be told) with Gene Roddenberry and the rest of the cast of Star Trek at the unveiling of the Space Shuttle Enterprise. (NASA photo) If you’re a fan of...
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Serenity: A Dream of What’s to Come
SpaceX’s Dragon is recovered after a successful splashdown last week. The unmanned transport ship returned over 3,100 pounds of cargo and experiments from the ISS. (Photo: SpaceX) Ni hao, fellow...
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Sign Our Petition at CSTS Pittsburgh This Saturday
Browncoats from Western Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Eastern Ohio who attend the 10th annual Can’t Stop the Serenity charity screening of Serenity at the historic Hollywood Theater in Pittsburgh, PA...
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What You Can Expect from Us at This Year’s Dragon Con
It’s hard to believe Jeff and I will be appearing at Dragon Con in less than a week! In case you haven’t heard (or read our blog entry from July 24), we’ll be participating in a panel called “Fan...
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Take Back the Sky to Appear at Wizard World Pittsburgh Sept. 11
We are pleased to announce that Take Back the Sky will appear at the inaugural Wizard World Pittsburgh Comic Con at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in downtown Pittsburgh on Friday, September...
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Announcing Our NEW Petition to SpaceX for a Dragon Named Serenity
For nearly three years, we’ve had a petition on MoveOn.org calling on SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk to name his company’s first manned spacecraft after Joss Whedon’s Serenity. In that time, the...
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What You Can Expect from Our Wizard World Pittsburgh Panel This Friday
In less than 48 hours, we’ll debut a brand new panel at Wizard World Pittsburgh Comic Con. The panel, entitled Browncoats in Space: the New Space Age and a Real-Life Spacecraft Named Serenity, will...
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Celebrate Fall by Sending SpaceX a “Leaf on the Wind”
At 4:21am (EST) this Wednesday, fall will officially arrive in this hemisphere. Fall means a lot of things to a lot of people. Students (and teachers) go back to school. Football season (both the...
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The Science of Firefly: The Wild West on Mars
Ni hao, travellers! With the recent announcement that NASA has found evidence that water still flows on the red planet, and with the highly anticipated film The Martian hitting theaters in the United...
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State of the ‘Verse: The Year That Was, and What’s to Come
Happy New Year, ladies and menfolk! 2015 was quite a ride. NASA announced the crew that will fly its Commercial Crew missions, SpaceX bounced back from a resupply mission to the ISS that got a little...
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Big Damn Heroes: Captain Sunita Williams
Ni hao again, fellow travelers, and best wishes for the new year! Today we’ll be introducing you to another one of the four astronauts pegged to be the first crew of the next fleet of American,...
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Rocket Science Night a Real Blast for the #SpaceXSerenityCrew
The evening of Friday, January 15 was a somewhat unique one for Take Back the Sky. Our tabling experience at “21+ Rocket Science Night” at the Carnegie Science Center of Pittsburgh marked the first...
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SpaceX and Comic-Con: Planting the Seeds of Serenity
In approximately 24 hours, we will close our second (and likely final) online petition to SpaceX asking them to name their first manned Dragon capsule after Joss Whedon’s fictional spaceship Serenity....
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Some Thoughts on Star Trek at 50 and Our Failure to Boldly Go
With my friend Liz (who is a science teacher in real life) in the lobby of the Hollywood Theater at “a Steel City Celebration of Star Trek.” (Note: This blog post was originally supposed to appear...
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