by David Todd | Oct 16, 2019 | Apollo, On a Sadder Note, Russia
Alexei Leonov, the first human to move in space outside a spacecraft has died at the age of 85. The former cosmonaut’s claim to fame is that he was the human who made the first ever spacewalk in 18 March 1965, beating Ed White’s NASA spacewalk during...
by David Todd | Jul 25, 2019 | NASA, On a Sadder Note, Seradata News, Space Arts
Two days after the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Apollo 11 landing, one man who was key to the mission – and to all the other NASA crewed missions of that era – Christopher Columbus Kraft Jr, passed away at the age of 95. Having trained for...
by David Todd | Jul 5, 2019 | On a Sadder Note, Seradata News, Space Arts
While spaceflight and space insurance has its fair share of colourful characters, they pale when it comes to some others involved in measuring risk. As such, we are sad to reveal that the world of horse racing and betting has just said goodbye to one of its biggest...
by David Todd | May 21, 2019 | On a Sadder Note, Seradata News
Few would have counted on Austrian racing driver Niki Lauda making three score years and ten after his near fatal crash at the German Grand Prix in 1976. And yet three time Formula One (F1) motor racing champion Niki Lauda did make it to 70. However, in effect, his...
by David Todd | May 13, 2019 | On a Sadder Note, Seradata News, Space Arts
The actress and singer Doris Day never really made a space movie, though one, The Glass Bottom Boat (1966), in which she co-starred with Rod Taylor, was a comedy romance/spy film whose plot involved the attempted theft of NASA space secrets. Despite this lack of...
by David Todd | May 3, 2019 | On a Sadder Note, Seradata News, Space Arts
The seven foot two inch tall actor Peter Mayhew, who played the Chewbacca Wookiee role in the long running Star Wars movie series beginning in 1977, has passed away at the age of 74. Mayhew originally did acting part time in between his job as a hospital porter. ...
