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...
by David Todd | Dec 17, 2015 | Apollo, China, exploration, NASA, Orion, Russia
Just as most modern jet airliners look the same as they optimise their shapes for their mission, so manned spacecraft are starting to look very similar. Sinodefence.com has revealed that China is working on a new manned spacecraft design that appears to be a close...
by David Todd | Oct 28, 2015 | Apollo, History
While astronauts are now allowed by NASA to sell off their memorabilia gifts from the Apollo era, astronaut Dave Scott has sold a personal item that he carried on the Moon. Scott who courted controversy in his time as Apollo 15’s mission commander by carrying...
