by David Todd | Oct 30, 2015 | History
While all films look to the past, especially as this column has pointed out, science fiction ones involving spaceflight, ‘The Martian’ (2015) has really stolen the plot from a much more distant forefather: Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe which was...
by David Todd | Oct 28, 2015 | Apollo, History
While astronauts are now allowed by NASA to sell off their memorabilia gifts from the Apollo era, astronaut Dave Scott has sold a personal item that he carried on the Moon. Scott who courted controversy in his time as Apollo 15’s mission commander by carrying...
by David Todd | Sep 25, 2015 | History, Military space
As the Royal Air Force looked back to its victory in the Battle of Britain* 75 years ago, culminating in RAF Hurricanes and Spitfires flown by “The Few” mauling Luftwaffe daylight bombing attacks on London during September 1940, its modern day pilots were...
by David Todd | Sep 9, 2015 | History, Seradata News, Technology
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II received world congratulations on officially surpassing Queen Victoria’s record as the longest reigning British monarch at 1630 GMT on 9 September 2015. Her reign has witnessed great achievements in medical science,...
by David Todd | Aug 24, 2015 | History
Aerospace aficionados will know that a popular air show celebrating anniversary of the Battle of Britain takes place every year at Shoreham Airport, near Brighton, Sussex, in Southern England. On this 75th Anniversary year, several 1940s-era vintage aircraft were set...
by David Todd | Jul 29, 2015 | China, ESA, exploration, History, JAXA, NASA, Russia
High Summer is the time of year when the Seradata space team does its annual analysis of the relative chances of each nation “winning the space race”. In this we act as a notional bookmaker offering notional odds that reflect each nation’s relative chances...
