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...
The well regarded film director Lewis Gilbert has died at the age of 97. Gilbert made 40 moving pictures. He was famous for his bitter-sweet romantic comedies such as Alfie (1966) and Educating Rita (1983) and Shirley Valentine (1989). While these masterful human...
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...
We are sad to report the death of the well regarded Professor Heinz Wolff at the age of 89. When it comes to what most people’s imagination of what a space scientist should be, most imagine that he should have a mad hair style and German-Jewish accent like...
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...
We are a sad to say a belated goodbye to Richard Anderson, 91, the actor who played the “Oscar Goldman” boss character in the very famous fictional 1970s TV series the “Six Million Dollar Man”. He died at the end of August. The series followed the adventures...
