by David Todd | Sep 24, 2018 | Apollo, NASA, On a Lighter Note, Seradata News
She might be an accomplished businesswoman in her own right and one of his most trusted advisers, but to US President Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump will always just be the apple of his eye. For Ivanka is his daughter. So after she made it clear, in a September phone call...
by David Todd | Sep 18, 2018 | Apollo, exploration, NASA, Satellites, SpaceX
SpaceX has announced that it is to take human space travellers around the Moon in 2023. The original plan was to send two passengers on a Falcon 9 Heavy-launched dragon spacecraft, but this was dropped after SpaceX decided to concentrate on the BFR (now more politely...
by David Todd | May 29, 2018 | Apollo, exploration, History, Seradata News, space station
While President Trump has formally decided that landing humans back on the Moon should get priority over a longer term Mars landing ambition, it maybe that no past moonwalker will be around by the time the next moonwalk happens. For the world has sadly lost another...
by David Todd | Jan 8, 2018 | Apollo, History, On a Sadder Note, Seradata News
When it comes to deciding which US astronaut was the best ever, there is a list of some obvious candidates all of which you would have liked on your crew. Of course the cool-under-fire types such as Apollo 11’s commander Neil Armstrong and the self-rescuing...
by David Todd | Dec 12, 2017 | Apollo, exploration, NASA
As Donald J. Trump approaches nearly one year in office as President of the United States, he has ordered the US Space agency, NASA, to put humans back on the Moon. President Trump said in his announcement on December 2017: “The directive I’m signing today will...
by David Todd | Nov 22, 2017 | Apollo, NASA, Seradata News, Soyuz, Technology
While pressurised sealed vessels like submarines have an obvious parallel in manned spacecraft.- there are also some elements of their technology which are actually shared between vessels flying in orbit and those under the sea. An example of one of these is the...
