by David Todd | Mar 14, 2016 | Apollo, History, On a Lighter Note, On a Sadder Note, Science, Seradata News
Research has found that conspiracy theorists who believe that that the Apollo moon landings of the late 1960s and early 1970s were fakes are more likely to be “narcissists” than other individuals. The online research conducted by the University of Kent has...
by David Todd | Mar 11, 2016 | On a Lighter Note, SpaceX
As your correspondent and his Seradata space analyst colleagues enter launch, re-entry and landing events onto the SpaceTrak database, we are finding it hard to log the landing ships involved in SpaceX’s so far unsuccessful Falcon 9 reusable first-stage down-range...
by David Todd | Feb 19, 2016 | exploration, On a Lighter Note, Seradata News
That now traditional insult “You couldn’t find your ass* (*English translation arse) with two hands and a map!” might well be true for some, but if you do actually have a good map there is no real excuse not to find it. For those that like to go rambling, fell...
by David Todd | Jan 4, 2016 | International Space Station, On a Lighter Note
While naturally elated at becoming the UK’s first “official” astronaut in space as part of ESA’s astronaut corps, that did not prevent Major Tim Peake from making his first gaffe in orbit. Major Tim made an error in dialling back to Earth and...
by David Todd | Nov 10, 2015 | On a Lighter Note, Seradata News, Space Shuttle, space station
While this column has previously noted that astronauts on long missions might be prone to premature dementia due to cosmic and solar radiation’s effect on the brain, a way to detect this before the said astronaut becomes a danger to the rest of the crew might now be...
by David Todd | Nov 9, 2015 | exploration, NASA, On a Lighter Note
Ever since when Voskhod 1 landed off course into the wilderness, subsequent Russian manned missions now carry a pistol on board their Soyuz spacecraft lest they also land off course and have to fight off bears and wolves. This column previously noted that the 9mm...
