Space Agencies from around the world including NASA and ESA have been paying their tributes to the late Queen of the UK, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, who died at the age of 96 on 8 September 2022. She had been on the throne for over 70 years, celebrating her...
The death of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on 30 August at the age of 91 prompted tributes to him from around the world in his role as a peacemaker and promoter of democratic freedoms during the Cold War. After Leonid Breznev finally died, followed by short...
Nichelle Nichols, the actress who played Lt Nyota Uhura, communications officer to the USS Enterprise, in the Star Trek science fiction TV series in the late 1960s and later movie series has died at the age of 89. Nichols who at one time wanted to give up the role was...
We are sad to note that veteran comedy actor and narrator Bernard Cribbins OBE has died at the age of 93. After a small part as a sonar operating sailor in HMS Amethyst (1957), his initial fame came in co-starring with Peter Sellars in the classic comedy films Two...
We are sad to report that the former Apollo 11 command module pilot and astronaut – and very much an unsung hero of the mission – Mike Collins has died of cancer at the age of 90. It was Collins’ role to orbit the Moon on his own in return Command...
With just two months to go before he would have celebrated his 100th birthday, His Royal Highness Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, died in peace at Windsor Castle after suffering a recent deterioration in his health. Prince Philip is most famous for being Her...
