by David Todd | Feb 3, 2021 | On a Sadder Note, Seradata News
The veteran actor Hal Holbrook has died at the age of 95. Holbrook played the good guy informer “Deep Throat” in All the President’s Men (1976) but is better remembered for his more devious roles such as playing a NASA villain in space conspiracy...
by David Todd | Jan 19, 2021 | On a Sadder Note, Seradata News
We are sad to report the death of the accomplished spaceflight watcher and satellite tracker, Phillip S. Clark, at the age of 70. Phil Clark was a noted expert on the Soviet/Russian and Chinese space programmes and was a regular participant at the British...
by David Todd | Dec 10, 2020 | On a Sadder Note, Seradata News
Brigadier General Chuck Yeager has died at the age of 97. While some suggest that the British test pilot Geoffrey DeHavilland might have done it when his DH108 experimental swept wing tailless jet broke up during a transonic dive over the Thames Estuary, killing him...
by David Todd | Nov 23, 2020 | Launches, On a Sadder Note, Seradata News, Technology
We note here a belated tribute to George P. Sutton, rocket scientist and textbook author, who passed away in October at the age of 100. No rocket scientist or engineer (or even space analyst or journalist) would be without at least one copy of his famous Rocket...
by David Todd | Oct 31, 2020 | On a Sadder Note, Seradata News, Space Arts
“Shurely shum mishtake Mish Moneypenny,” as Sir Sean Connery might have said is his oft-imitated lispy Scottish accent, but we are sad to report that the famous James Bond actor has died at the age of 90. Sean Connery was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. and...
by David Todd | Oct 20, 2020 | On a Sadder Note, Seradata News
One of this writer’s favourite films is the movie rendition of Mark Twain’s fun time travelling tale A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1949) starring Bing Crosby and Rhonda Fleming – a movie which, by the way, (spoiler alert) has a...