by David Todd | Jul 25, 2016 | History, NASA, Seradata News, Space Shuttle
The candidates of the US Presidential Election, Donald Trump, and Hillary Clinton, are keen to deploy former astronauts in their support. During July, former Shuttle commander Eileen Collins made a speech at the Republican Party Convention in which she noted her...
by David Todd | May 23, 2016 | India, Seradata News, Space Shuttle, Suborbital, Technology
India’s space agency, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), has made a test flight of a new design for winged reusable space travel. The endo-atmospheric suborbital test flight, dubbed HEX-1, of the Reusable Launch Vehicle Technology Demonstrator (RLV-TD) was...
by David Todd | Feb 19, 2016 | Apollo, History, NASA, Seradata News, Space Shuttle, space station
While USA decides whether or not it wants to continue with the International Space Station, whose cost-effectiveness is often criticised given its very high cost (US$100 billion and counting), it was not, of course, America’s first foray into space station...
by David Todd | Nov 10, 2015 | On a Lighter Note, Seradata News, Space Shuttle, space station
While this column has previously noted that astronauts on long missions might be prone to premature dementia due to cosmic and solar radiation’s effect on the brain, a way to detect this before the said astronaut becomes a danger to the rest of the crew might now be...
by David Todd | Feb 23, 2015 | Commercial human spaceflight, International Space Station, NASA, Space Shuttle, SpaceX
NASA astronaut, Barry Wilmore, along with fellow astronaut, Terry Virts, ventured outside of the International Space Station on 21 February 2014, in the first of three EVA assignments to prepare the ISS with docking equipment to accept US Commercial crew spacecraft....
by David Todd | Jul 3, 2014 | NASA, Seradata News, SLS, Space Shuttle
Boeing has finalised a contract with NASA to develop the core stage of the Space Launch System (SLS), the most powerful rocket ever built and destined to propel America’s return to human exploration of deep space. The US$2.8 billion contract confirms Boeing...
