by David Todd | Mar 17, 2016 | Apollo, History, On a Sadder Note
Veteran BBC broadcaster, Cliff Michelmore has passed away at the age of 96. After serving in the RAF during World War II, Michelmore joined British Forces radio. He subsequently joined the BBC and rose to stardom presenting the radio show Family Favourites with...
by David Todd | Mar 14, 2016 | Apollo, History, On a Lighter Note, On a Sadder Note, Science, Seradata News
Research has found that conspiracy theorists who believe that that the Apollo moon landings of the late 1960s and early 1970s were fakes are more likely to be “narcissists” than other individuals. The online research conducted by the University of Kent has...
by David Todd | Feb 22, 2016 | Apollo, History
While Apollo 10 is now often overlooked as the “dress rehearsal” mission to Apollo 11’s successful lunar landing later in 1969. However, during the mission’s one hour passage round the far side of the moon when no radio signals can be received...
by David Todd | Feb 19, 2016 | Apollo, History, NASA, Seradata News, Space Shuttle, space station
While USA decides whether or not it wants to continue with the International Space Station, whose cost-effectiveness is often criticised given its very high cost (US$100 billion and counting), it was not, of course, America’s first foray into space station...
by David Todd | Feb 13, 2016 | Apollo, History, Russia
Space Cadets have very little time left to see the ‘Cosmonaut – Birth of the Space Age’ exhibition at London’s Science Museum. The exhibition, displaying some important spacecraft and artefacts from the early years of the Soviet space programme, is set to close on...
by David Todd | Feb 8, 2016 | Apollo, History, On a Sadder Note
Apollo 14 astronaut and moon walker, Edgar Mitchell has passed away at the age of 85. Mitchell accompanied Apollo 14 mission commander and ex-Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard to the Fra Mauro region on the surface of the moon in February 1971, leaving command module...
