After the failure of its maiden launch, Rocket Lab’s Electron light launch vehicle has successfully reached orbit for the first time. The rocket lifted-off from its launch site on the Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand, at 0143 GMT. It was carrying three commercial...
It remains a perpetual irritation to this military history buff that today’s children and teenagers – and many adults – know more about the battles and militaria of the Star Wars science fictional film series than that from the real wars on Earth. In fact, Star Wars...
Sometimes differences in salary are down to differences in status, experience, length of service, negotiation skills, market forces and even pure luck. For example, Apollo 11 moonwalking astronaut Neil Armstrong was famously paid a lot more as a civilian grade...
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...
It is always nice when a scientific type also gets honoured amongst all the pop and film stars, military types, charity workers, a few lollipop ladies…and, of course, some crawling politicians. The British chemist and Britain’s first astronaut Dr Helen...
With assets of less than US$10 million and liabilities of more than twice this amount, XCOR Aerospace filed for bankruptcy after finding that it could not raise further funds. The firm was once a competitor to Virgin Galactic in the suborbital spaceplane space tourism...
