by David Todd | Aug 28, 2012 | Apollo, exploration, History, NASA, Orion, Seradata News
Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the Moon in July 1969, has passed away on 25 August, three weeks after his 82nd birthday. Armstrong had been recovering from medical procedures to alleviate his blocked coronary arteries, when complications led to his...
by David Todd | Aug 22, 2012 | Apollo, China, Constellation, exploration, JAXA, NASA, Seradata News, SLS, Technology
Two years ago, the space team at the Ascend consultancy (now part of Flightglobal) did an analysis on which nation was likely to be the first to return men to the moon. In the analysis notional odds were assigned to each which country as a measure of our estimation...
by Rob Coppinger | Jul 17, 2009 | Apollo, Technology
Last week Paul Coffman and Bob Biggs, former Rocketdyne engineers and members of the development teams for the J-2 and F-1 engines, respectively,spoke to Flightglobal through a teleconference organised by Pratt & Whitney RocketdyneBoth are now consultants on...
by Rob Coppinger | Jun 12, 2009 | Apollo, exploration, History, NASA
Three weeks and forty years ago today the NASA capsule pictured above was orbiting the Moon, on 22 May 1969. Apollo 10 and its crew, Eugene “Gene” Cernan, John Young and Thomas Stafford paved the way for the 20 July 1969 landing of Apollo 11 astronauts...
by David Todd | May 11, 2009 | Apollo, exploration, History, NASA
Flightglobal.com is just a couple of years old (and Hyperbola even younger!) but its namesake Flight International magazine celebrated its centenary last year and that print title featured articles about spaceflight before it was technically feasible and reported on...
by Rob Coppinger | Mar 31, 2009 | Apollo, Ares, ESA, exploration, History, International Space Station, NASA, Space tourism
You can find Flightglobal.com’s news and blog page (or landing page as its known in the jargon) for the 25th National Space Symposium right here. You can create you’re own landing pages for any aerospace topic you want by going to this page and typing into...
