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. ...
by David Todd | Apr 16, 2019 | Apollo, History, NASA, On a Sadder Note
Former NASA astronaut Owen Garriott has passed away at his home in Huntsville Alabama at the age of 88. Garriott was an electrical engineer by profession, becoming a professor in the subject at Stanford University. Having previously served as an electronics officer...
by David Todd | Mar 29, 2019 | On a Sadder Note
We are sad to note that real life early cosmonaut Valery Fyodorovich Bykovsky has passed away at the age of 84. He flew on his first spaceflight on Vostok 5 in 1963 as well as on Soyuz 22 and Soyuz 31 in the second half of the 1970s. Meantime, in the fictional world,...
by David Todd | Jan 21, 2019 | On a Sadder Note, Seradata News
Seradata is sad to learn of the passing of Welsh comedy actor Windsor Davies at the age of 88. While he had appeared in small parts in several films, Davies came to prominence in the 1970s appearing in two carry on films, including the just-about-ok Carry On Behind...
