by David Todd | Dec 5, 2014 | NASA, Orion
After weather and a valve fault induced a one day delay, the Delta IV launched the Orion EFT-1 mission successfully into orbit. The rocket lifted off at 1205 GMT from the Cape Canaveral Air Station in Florida on 5 December 2014. The Orion EFT-1 manned-exploration...
by David Todd | Sep 6, 2013 | Apollo, NASA, Orion
While NASA’s first manned spaceflight director, Chris Kraft, continues to be critical of the whole concept of building the new SLS heavy lift rocket system in favour of using current smaller launch vehicles, others remain concerned that NASA’s heavy lift...
by David Todd | Aug 5, 2013 | exploration, NASA, Orion, Seradata News, SLS
While NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) heavy lift rocket is being designed to help its astronauts to one day reach the planets and passing asteroids, it remains under fire. Critics in the US House of Representatives and elsewhere note that it is sucking NASA...
by David Todd | Aug 28, 2012 | Apollo, exploration, History, NASA, Orion, Seradata News
Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the Moon in July 1969, has passed away on 25 August, three weeks after his 82nd birthday. Armstrong had been recovering from medical procedures to alleviate his blocked coronary arteries, when complications led to his...
by David Todd | Jul 12, 2012 | commercial launch services, Orion, Russia
The Minister of State for Universities and Science, the Rt Hon David Willetts MP used the Farnborough International Air Show to announce the new ‘Civil Space Strategy’ setting out the direction for the UK space sector over the next four years. With the UK...
by Rob Coppinger | Apr 26, 2010 | Ares, Constellation, exploration, NASA, Orion, Seradata News
When this blogger saw the headline of this 30 March article by Aviation Week’s senior space editor Frank Morring it seemed that the “program of record” that dare not speak its name had finally broken cover and spoken to the media after a self imposed...
