by David Todd | Jun 24, 2020 | Blue Origin, Commercial human spaceflight, International Space Station, NASA, Seradata News, Virgin Galactic
It can be said that NASA’s human spaceflight programme has suffered too many changes of leader in the past year. In July 2019, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine effectively fired by demotion the long-serving – but reluctant to change – William H. (Bill) Gerstenmaier... 
by David Todd | May 12, 2020 | Virgin Galactic
With the UK Government about to impose a 14-day quarantine on arriving passengers from most other countries, UK airlines and airports, are protesting. Rather than a very disruptive quarantine airports and airlines would ideally prefer much less draconian measures on... 
by Matt Wilson | Oct 25, 2019 | Commercial human spaceflight, Finance, Seradata News, Space tourism, Virgin Galactic
In a vote on 23 October, shareholders of SCH (Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp.) approved its merger with upcoming space tourism firm Virgin Galactic. Following the completion of the transaction, Virgin Galactic became a Delaware-based publicly traded company... 
by David Todd | Jul 15, 2019 | Apollo, Blue Origin, Commercial human spaceflight, NASA, Seradata News, Space Insurance, SpaceX, Virgin Galactic
As the 50th celebration of the Apollo 11 astronaut moon landing gets underway, some less well-known aspects of the mission have been revealed. One was that during the late 1950s the UK briefly considered starting a project to mount its own Apollo-11-style human lunar... 
by David Todd | Feb 26, 2019 | Commercial human spaceflight, Personal spaceflight, Suborbital, Virgin Galactic
At 1607 GMT on 15 February a Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo Unity rocketplaine was air-dropped from its carrier aircraft Over the Mojave air strip in California, at. Aboard was David Mackay – the main test pilot and his co-pilot Mike “Sooch” Masucci (Co-Pilot). ... 
by David Todd | Dec 14, 2018 | Commercial human spaceflight, Personal spaceflight, Seradata News, Virgin Galactic, White Knight
The US Air Force has traditionally awarded its pilots “astronaut wings” if they have exceeded 50 miles (80km) in altitude. Others who support this limit of where “space begins” include astrophysicist and spaceflight expert Dr Jonathan McDowell. He has eloquently...
