by David Todd | Mar 21, 2013 | Apollo, History, Seradata News
Internet billionaire and space aficionado, Jeff Bezos, who plans to run a space transportation operation via his Blue Origin outfit, has just been congratulated by NASA’s Administrator Maj.Gen Charles Bolden for a more historical...
by David Todd | Feb 26, 2013 | Apollo, History
While the late first man on the Moon, Neil Armstrong would probably not approve, by act of Congress, he has had his name replace aeronautical engineeer, Hugh Dryden, on the name plate of the Dryden Flight Research Center in...
by David Todd | Feb 12, 2013 | Apollo, History, Seradata News
Flightglobal’s Hyperbola column is sad to report that veteran BBC spaceflight correspondent Reg Turnill has died at the age of 97 on 12 February 2013. Recruited initially from the Press Association to cover industrial news, Turnill became the BBC air...
by David Todd | Oct 9, 2012 | Apollo, SLS, Space Shuttle
In its quest to pursue manned space exploration to the Moon, asteroids and onwards to Mars, NASA began its Space Launch System heavy lift launch vehicle programme after Project Constellation was cancelled. While the initial Block 1 SLS design has...
by David Todd | Sep 13, 2012 | Apollo, exploration, History, Seradata News
A national act of remembrance for Neil Armstrong was held at the Washington National Cathedral (on of whose windows include a moon rock brought back by Apollo 11) on the morning (local time) of 13 September. The service,which was broadcast by NASA TV, held...
by David Todd | Sep 12, 2012 | Apollo, exploration, History, NASA, Seradata News
On 12 September 1962, in a speech made at the Rice University, Houston, US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy announced a commitment to land men on the Moon by the end of the 1960s. The speech set NASA on a mission that it achieved with Apollo 11’s landing in...
