by David Todd | Oct 28, 2013 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, Personal spaceflight, Space Shuttle, Technology
The Sierra Nevada Dream Chaser, one of the commercial spacecraft hoping to be used to provide regular transportation services to NASA astronauts has had its first glide test after being airdropped from a helicopter – and crashed on landing. The pilotless test...
by David Todd | Sep 19, 2013 | commercial launch services, exploration, NASA, Russia, Seradata News, Space Shuttle
Our previous article outlined the fact that the later Block 1A and Block 2 versions of NASA’s SLS were probably too small for proper manned exploration (according to studies two SLS launch vehicles will be needed for a manned lunar mission). We went...
by David Todd | Aug 12, 2013 | International Space Station, NASA, Seradata News, Space Shuttle, space station
Accomplished NASA astronaut Michael Foale who holds dual UK/US citizenship has retired from NASA. During his astronaut career he had six trips into orbit via six space shuttle missions and served 145 days aboard the Russian space station Mir in 1997. That mission...
by David Todd | May 21, 2013 | History, Space Shuttle
President Barack Obama has posthumously awarded fomer astronaut and first US female in orbit, Dr. Sally Ride, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The award is the highest US civilian honour that can been bestowed. Ride made her first flight in 1983 on STS-07 and...
by David Todd | Apr 24, 2013 | International Space Station, Russia, Space Shuttle, space station
A Soyuz U launch vehicle successfully launched Progress M-019M (ISS-51P) on its mission to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome located near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan. Aboard were 2.5 tons of cargo and supplies for the astronauts aboard the...
by David Todd | Mar 20, 2013 | Space Shuttle
The BBC docu-drama The Challenger, recently shown on BBC television, dramatises the investigative process after the Space Shuttle Challenger so memorably blew up some 73 seconds into its flight with the doomed astronauts’ shocked families looking on, after its...
