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...
Former NASA astronaut, Rick Searfoss who flew three Space Shuttle missions STS-58, STS-76 and STS-90 during the 1990s has died at the age of only 62. Searfoss was a test pilot and, until recently, was test pilot for the XCOR Aerospace Company, which, until its...
Professor Stephen Hawking, the eminent theoretical astrophysicist, has died at the age of 76 – about 50 years longer than he was expected to live. A victim of motor neurone disease, diagnosed while he was a postgraduate student in his early twenties at Cambridge...
When it comes to deciding which US astronaut was the best ever, there is a list of some obvious candidates all of which you would have liked on your crew. Of course the cool-under-fire types such as Apollo 11’s commander Neil Armstrong and the self-rescuing...
NASA has paid its respects to one of its former faithful servants, astronaut Richard (Dick) Gordon, who has passed away at the age of 88 during November. Gordon was the command module pilot on Apollo 12, the second lunar landing mission in late 1969. That happy and...
While the Apollo space programme tended to eclipse its Gemini forerunner and its Skylab space station successor, in many ways it is the latter which became more important technologically for the next forty years of manned spaceflight. For Skylab was America’s...
