by David Todd | May 1, 2020 | Apollo, exploration, NASA, Seradata News, Technology
Having previously eschewed using the Lunar Gateway space station as a half-way stop for its human carrying landing system, NASA has selected three teams to build human landers/ascent craft to land astronauts on the Moon as part of the Artemis programme. The target...
by David Todd | Dec 16, 2019 | Military space, Seradata News
Post-mortems on the UK General Election, which returned Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson to office with a majority of 80, have identified three major factors. Most important was Brexit. Labour and the Liberal Democrats hoped to use the election to their...
by David Todd | Mar 27, 2019 | Apollo, Blue Origin, exploration, NASA, Seradata News, SLS, SpaceX
The Trump Administration has signalled a change of space policy on a human return to the Moon. Addressing the National Space Council in Huntsville, Alabama, and hinting that the USA was in effect in a race with China, US Vice President Mike Pence called for a human...
by David Todd | Dec 12, 2017 | Apollo, exploration, NASA
As Donald J. Trump approaches nearly one year in office as President of the United States, he has ordered the US Space agency, NASA, to put humans back on the Moon. President Trump said in his announcement on December 2017: “The directive I’m signing today will...
by David Todd | Sep 13, 2012 | Apollo, exploration, History, Seradata News
A national act of remembrance for Neil Armstrong was held at the Washington National Cathedral (on of whose windows include a moon rock brought back by Apollo 11) on the morning (local time) of 13 September. The service,which was broadcast...
