by David Todd | Jun 6, 2014 | History
At the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings on 6 June 1944 which helped win the Second World War, we salute those who fought, and especially those who were killed or grievously injured in the name of freedom. Nevertheless, on the day that we made our salute, the...
by David Todd | Mar 26, 2014 | Add category, Apollo, History
For those of us old enough to remember the Apollo moon landings, as this writer does just about, it is always a thrill to meet those few remaining astronauts who have managed to set foot on the Moon. And given that these jut-jawed, all-American heroes of the past are...
by David Todd | Mar 18, 2014 | commercial launch services, History, Russia, Technology
As our Ukranian crisis analysis predicted, the US Government is now concerned that a Russian-built rocket engine, the RD-180, is being used to power United Launch Alliance (ULA)-operated Atlas V launch vehicle, one of two types the US Department of Defence currently...
by David Todd | Mar 13, 2014 | History, NASA, Space Shuttle
While the BBC/Discovery Communications Docu-Drama The Challenger (aka The Challenger Disaster) was generally well regarded, with critics especially praising William Hurt’s performance as the not-to-be-purturbed physicist Richard Feynman as he helped to...
by David Todd | Mar 10, 2014 | Apollo, History, NASA, Russia, Seradata News, Space Shuttle
Skylab astronaut Bill Pogue has died on 3 March at the age of 84. Originally selected as an astronaut in 1966, having previously been a pilot in the US Air Force Thunderbirds display team, Pogue made his one and only spaceflight as the Command Module pilot in the...
by David Todd | Mar 7, 2014 | Apollo, History
During a lecture at the British Interplanetary Society, London, in February, the space writer and former space engineer, Dr David Baker, who worked on NASA’s Gemini, Apollo and Skylab projects, revealed that the Apollo landng module that put man on the moon,...
