by David Todd | Jul 17, 2019 | Apollo, exploration, NASA
The UK Space Agency and NASA have signed a new “Statement of Intent” to cooperate on lunar missions. The declaration was made on the same day of the 50th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11 – the first human landing on the Moon. UK Science...
by David Todd | Jul 17, 2019 | NASA, SpaceX
The post-flight ground test destruction of the previously flown (in uncrewed condition) Crew Dragon DM-1 capsule, during a SuperDraco thruster engine firing test on 20 April 2019, was caused by a leak of nitrogen tetroxide, a preliminary investigation by SpaceX...
by David Todd | Jul 17, 2019 | Apollo, History, NASA
For those of you who like to work their brains, here below is our Apollo 11 50th anniversary moon landing crossword. Some of you will have already seen this as we handed it out at our Seradata Space Conference last month. We awarded a prize to the first to complete...
by David Todd | Jul 17, 2019 | Apollo, History, NASA, Seradata News
While positive discrimination policies may not be the answer given these have their own dangers of discriminating against others, it has to be accepted that sexism and racism still provide barriers to entry for many people. And in the past this was far worse. And yet,...
by David Todd | Jul 15, 2019 | Apollo, Blue Origin, Commercial human spaceflight, NASA, Seradata News, Space Insurance, SpaceX, Virgin Galactic
As the 50th celebration of the Apollo 11 astronaut moon landing gets underway, some less well-known aspects of the mission have been revealed. One was that during the late 1950s the UK briefly considered starting a project to mount its own Apollo-11-style human lunar...
by David Todd | Jul 11, 2019 | exploration, NASA
In a mini “Night of the Long Knives”, NASA’s Administrator Jim Bridenstine has demoted its head of its Human Exploration and Operations (HEO) Mission Directorate Bill Gerstenmaier and his deputy Bill Hill. Gerstenmaier becomes a special adviser to...
