Directed by Damien Chazelle and starring Ryan Gosling, First Man (2018) shows that Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong was a thoughtful, intelligent, cool-under-fire hero – but one who was also racked by personal sadness. The film was written by Josh Singer with the...
Two American aerospace and defence suppliers, L3 Technologies Inc and Harris Corporation, announced on 14 October 2018 a plan to “merge as equals”, combining their portfolios to become the sixth largest Defence company in the USA. This new company will be called “L3...
Rockets-to-electric cars billionaire Elon Musk continued to mesmerise during September in his role as chief designer and overall boss of SpaceX. This was despite suffering much criticism and bad press over his ill-judged Twitter declarations – actions he would...
The Royal Thai Air Force has a history going back to 1913. It operates a potent fighter/fighter bomber force including F-16, Gripen and F-5 jets. And now it is getting into space. The Royal Thai Air Force has ordered a 6U Cubesat as a reconnaissance/Earth...
As the old joke goes: there are three types of people in this world…those that can count and those that can’t. One who certainly can is the African-American mathematician and human “computer” Katherine Colemon Goble Johnson who became...
SpaceX supreme leader, Elon Musk, is in trouble again – and again Twitter appears to be his downfall. Musk is alleged to have broken corporate law in using Twitter to publicly offer to buy back all the shares of his Tesla electric car concern in order to make it...
