Those of you who read our obituary columns would have noted that Seradata’s Space team’s one time boss Andrew Gleadow passed away in October. This writer was glad to attend his memorial service for him at St. Nicholas church in Chawton where Jane Austin...
NASA has paid its respects to one of its former faithful servants, astronaut Richard (Dick) Gordon, who has passed away at the age of 88 during November. Gordon was the command module pilot on Apollo 12, the second lunar landing mission in late 1969. That happy and...
The Royal Navy has been rocked by scandals involving sex and drugs within its elite Submarine Service. First came the revelation that Commander Stuart Armstrong, captain of HMS Vigilant, which carries Trident nuclear missiles, had been relieved of his command for...
The crescendo of the Conservative (Tory) Party Conference being held in Manchester in early October was supposed to be a rousing speech from Prime Minister Theresa May. However, it all ended rather badly. At the start, cheeky chappie comedian Lee Nelson (Simon Bodkin)...
Sixty years ago on 4 October 1957, the small 84 kg SPUTNIK 1 (PS-1) satellite was launched into orbit by the Soviet Union, beating the USA to the prize of being first nation to orbit something. It was Sergey Korolev’s R-7 converted ballistic missile which took...
Northrop Grumman Corporation, the US defence and aerospace company, is acquiring Orbital ATK (OATK) for US$9.2 billion. The completion of the deal will see OATK established as the fourth major Northrop Grumman business unit alongside Aerospace Systems, Mission Systems...
