by David Todd | Feb 19, 2019 | Apollo, exploration, History, NASA, On a Lighter Note
Most wise humans know that while we should take our roles seriously as workers, parents, carers and the like, we should not take ourselves too seriously. Nothing saps the spirit like having a po-faced professional colleague whose humourless attitude tends to get...
by David Todd | Feb 18, 2019 | NASA, Satellites, SpaceX, Technology
In what is becoming a habit, NASA, has been forced to admit that its plan to launch crew aboard commercial launches of commercial spacecraft has been delayed again. Specifially, the uncrewed test launches of both SpaceX’s Crew Dragon, and the Boeing CST-100...
by David Todd | Feb 18, 2019 | NASA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
NASA has selected the SPHEREx astronomy mission to progress to operational status as a NASA Medium-class Explorer (MIDEX) type mission. SPHEREx – Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Re-ionization and Ices Explorer – will conduct...
by David Todd | Feb 12, 2019 | International Space Station, NASA, Satellites
The Northrop Grumman Cygnus NG-10 (John Young) unmanned cargo spacecraft, whose operation has been commission by NASA, having earlier been “unberthed” from the Unity module using the International Space Station’s robot arm, it was released at 1616...
by David Todd | Feb 7, 2019 | commercial launch services, exploration, Launches, NASA
The United Launch Alliance (ULA) celebrated the win in a competitive bidding situation of a NASA contract to launch the LUCY mission – a “Discovery-class” mission to the Trojan asteroids. The launch is to use an Atlas V 401 launch vehicle. The...
by David Todd | Jan 30, 2019 | International Space Station, NASA, Russia, Seradata News
The Roscosmos unmanned Progress MS-09 cargo freighter which has been attached to the International Space Station (ISS) since July has now left it. It undocked from the ISS Pirs module at 1255 GMT on 25 January. It made a de-orbit burn at 1608 GMT and re-entered over...
