Ewan Whitaker, 94, has passed away during October. Whitaker is not widely known but was a key map maker for lunar exploration in the 1960s. In fact, Whitaker was a self taught astronomer who became so skilled that he was invited to Greenwich Observatory in 1949 and...
IAC 2016 Guadalaraja: Mars missions and new rockets feature… and so does the rain The annual meeting of the World’s space agencies, engineers and scientists at the 67th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) took place in Guadalajara, Mexico, during late September...
While the FIFA World Cup and the Olympic Games remain unmatched as individual world TV and satellite broadcasting events, in third, but way ahead of the rest, is the sport of Formula One motor racing. And it is this world reach that makes Formula One (F1) a money...
Yes – there really is a Captain James Kirk but he is not a star ship captain. He has just taken command of the US Navy’s newest ship, the USS Zumwalt. While it has a crew of only 147 sailors and is formally called a destroyer, it actually has the tonnage...
When you are a teenage youngster you have big dreams. In between wishing for, but sadly never getting, the (slightly older) girl next door, and wanting a James Bond-like Lotus Esprit sports car, your then keen young correspondent also had dreams about walking on the...
Seradata is sad to note the passing of Frank Sietzen Jr. at the relatively early age of 65. Frank Sietzen Jr. has been a professional space writer for three decades, writing for Space Business News, space.com, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and...
