by David Todd | May 1, 2020 | Apollo, exploration, NASA, Seradata News, Technology
Having previously eschewed using the Lunar Gateway space station as a half-way stop for its human carrying landing system, NASA has selected three teams to build human landers/ascent craft to land astronauts on the Moon as part of the Artemis programme. The target... 
by David Todd | Feb 14, 2020 | Apollo, Seradata News, Space politics
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson reshuffled his Cabinet in February. While many of the moves had been telegraphed – mainly to the Daily Telegraph (the Conservative-leaning broadsheet newspaper) – other newspapers noted that Johnson (and his adviser Dominic Cummings)... 
by David Todd | Oct 16, 2019 | Apollo, On a Sadder Note, Russia
Alexei Leonov, the first human to move in space outside a spacecraft, has died at the age of 85. The former cosmonaut made the first spacewalk on 18 March 1965, beating Ed White’s NASA spacewalk during Gemini IV on 3 June by nearly three months. Born on 30 May 1934,... 
by David Todd | Sep 13, 2019 | Apollo
To celebrate the 50th Apollo 11 anniversary earlier this year, we ran a crossword to test the brains of our readers. Unfortunately, we had some technical issues compounded by a few human errors. This meant that the clues were either wrongly numbered or missing. Thus,... 
by David Todd | Aug 22, 2019 | Apollo, China, ESA, exploration, India, JAXA, NASA, Russia, Seradata News
Every August Seradata does its usual analysis of the “runners and riders” in “The Great Space Race” between the major space nations. Here we judge each space programme on the basis of technological ability, financial and other resources, national will and, most... 
by David Todd | Jul 17, 2019 | Apollo, exploration, NASA
The UK Space Agency and NASA have signed a new “Statement of Intent” to cooperate on lunar missions. The declaration was made on the same day of the 50th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11 – the first human landing on the Moon. UK Science...
