by David Todd | Jun 19, 2019 | History, Seradata News, SpaceX, Technology
Now that Boeing faces legal action over its design process and over its failure to ground the faulty Boeing 737 Max aircraft, some wonder why it was ever designed like that in the first place. Nevertheless, there will always be a tension between what is safe and what...
by David Todd | Jun 14, 2019 | History, Seradata News, Space Arts
The world renowned British Broadcasting Corporation – more normally known as the BBC – has been licking its wounds after a series of disastrous decisions has caused it to lose a lot of its public support. The most recent of these was its support of...
by David Todd | May 28, 2019 | Apollo, History, On a Lighter Note
While the Apollo 10 lunar mission in May 1969 is often overlooked, it was the dress rehearsal for the main lunar landing. It involved hazardous rendez-vous docking and undocking operations, and lunar module descent and ascent engine firing tests in lunar orbit. The...
by David Todd | May 28, 2019 | ESA, History, Seradata News
Having finally lost the support of her own MPs, and the Conservative Party in general, as she tried to get her rejected “Brexit” deal with the EU though parliament for a fourth time, Theresa May has finally formally given in her notice to quit. She will no...
by David Todd | Apr 16, 2019 | Apollo, History, NASA, On a Sadder Note
Former NASA astronaut Owen Garriott has passed away at his home in Huntsville Alabama at the age of 88. Garriott was an electrical engineer by profession, becoming a professor in the subject at Stanford University. Having previously served as an electronics officer...
by David Todd | Mar 20, 2019 | History
The disastrous uncertainty of the current Brexit impasse is a chagrin to the UK space industry and to the nation’s other industries, who, in truth, would rather that the UK was not leaving the EU at all. Meanwhile, leaver opinion is hardening and now appears to...
