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...
by David Todd | Aug 22, 2012 | Apollo, China, Constellation, exploration, JAXA, NASA, Seradata News, SLS, Technology
Two years ago, the space team at the Ascend consultancy (now part of Flightglobal) did an analysis on which nation was likely to be the first to return men to the moon. In the analysis notional odds were assigned to each which country as a measure of our...
by Rob Coppinger | Apr 20, 2010 | Seradata News
Despite the grandiose visit to Kennedy Space Center (KSC) president Barack Obama’s space plan is still being divisive even with the announcements of a 2025 asteroid goal and a 2035 mission to orbit, but not land on, MarsIn the video above Buzz Aldrin...
by Rob Coppinger | Mar 15, 2010 | Seradata News
This video appears to have been taken during a presentation that was screening a film with no apparent sound from the 1970s showing what seems to be a lunar lander simulator. This video’s Youtube page, provided by someone called easynow, has a...
by Rob Coppinger | Feb 26, 2010 | NASA, Technology
In response to Buzz Aldrin’s article in the Wall Street Journal Burt Rutan has circulated the following:This sounds fine thru the lens of my friend Buzz Aldrin. However, the reality is that the new plan has no schedules, no $ and no programs to build...