by David Todd | Apr 28, 2021 | Apollo, On a Sadder Note, Seradata News
We are sad to report that the former Apollo 11 command module pilot and astronaut – and very much an unsung hero of the mission – Mike Collins has died of cancer at the age of 90. It was Collins’ role to orbit the Moon on his own in return Command...
by David Todd | Feb 4, 2021 | Apollo, Blue Origin, exploration, NASA, Seradata News
With just over one quarter of the funding it needed from Congress (US$850 million versus the US$3.2 billion requested) for its Human Landing System (HLS) – a lunar lander for its Artemis programme – NASA has been forced to delay the programme. The three...
by David Todd | Aug 6, 2020 | Apollo, History, Satellites, Seradata News
“Miss him dearly” was the touching comment that former Apollo 11 astronaut Mike Collins made on Twitter on what would have been his Apollo 11 commander late Neil Armstrong’s 90th birthday on 5 August. The Armstrong Air and Space Museum in...
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,...
