by David Todd | Jun 24, 2020 | Blue Origin, Commercial human spaceflight, International Space Station, NASA, Seradata News, Virgin Galactic
It can be said that NASA’s human spaceflight programme has suffered too many changes of leader in the past year. In July 2019, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine effectively fired by demotion the long-serving – but reluctant to change – William H. (Bill) Gerstenmaier... 
by David Todd | Nov 12, 2019 | Blue Origin, exploration, NASA, Orion
The Presidential directive to put humans on the Moon by the end of 2024 is concentrating the mind of NASA’s leadership. To some extent NASA’s hands have been bound by past equipment choices with the ever-present problem of having very limited funds to enact such a... 
by David Todd | Oct 23, 2019 | Blue Origin, exploration, NASA, Seradata News
While US Vice President Mike Pence’s nationalistic speech managed to annoy the international audience at the 70th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Washington D.C., the Amazon and Blue Origin supremo had a much better reception. As part of an on... 
by David Todd | Jul 15, 2019 | Apollo, Blue Origin, Commercial human spaceflight, NASA, Seradata News, Space Insurance, SpaceX, Virgin Galactic
As the 50th celebration of the Apollo 11 astronaut moon landing gets underway, some less well-known aspects of the mission have been revealed. One was that during the late 1950s the UK briefly considered starting a project to mount its own Apollo-11-style human lunar... 
by David Todd | Jun 28, 2019 | Blue Origin, commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites, Seradata Announcements, Seradata News, Technology
While this writer was both an organiser and participant at the Seradata Space Conference in London in June, he can just about stay neutral enough to write about the event. Following a slightly doom-laden introduction about the prospects for space insurance, by... 
by David Todd | Jun 23, 2019 | Blue Origin, Launches, Seradata Announcements, Space Insurance
There are just two days to register for the Seradata Space Conference, Space Risks, Business and Insurance which takes place in London on 25 June 2019. We have put together a fantastic array of speakers who will inform, educate and entertain you. To see the full...
