by David Todd | Apr 16, 2019 | exploration, Launches, NASA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News, Technology
While Hollywood has long flagged the dangers of asteroid and comet impact via its science fictional disaster movies Meteor (1979), Deep Impact (1998) and Armageddon (1998), real life space seemed to have no solution to the threat. Now NASA, in conjunction with John...
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 | Apr 10, 2019 | International Space Station, NASA, Russia, Seradata News, space station
In a new extra vehicular activity (EVA) session on 8 April, more colloquially known as a spacewalk, two astronauts had to change a recently fitted battery on the International Space Station (ISS) which was proving defective. The Lithium Ion battery which had been...
by David Todd | Apr 10, 2019 | exploration, NASA
At the 35th Space Symposium in Colorado on 9 April 2019 NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine hung some meat on the bare bones of a plan to return humans to the Moon by 2024 – an challenge made last month by Vice President Mike Pence and accepted by Bridenstine on...
by David Todd | Mar 27, 2019 | Apollo, Blue Origin, exploration, NASA, Seradata News, SLS, SpaceX
The Trump Administration has signalled a change of space policy on a human return to the Moon. Addressing the National Space Council in Huntsville, Alabama, and hinting that the USA was in effect in a race with China, US Vice President Mike Pence called for a human...
by David Todd | Mar 25, 2019 | International Space Station, NASA, Seradata News
NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Anne McClain successfully fitted new batteries to the power system of the International Space Station (ISS) during an EVA (Extra Vehicular Activity) on 22 March. McClain led the six hour 39 minute long spacewalk as the EV1 command...
