by David Todd | Apr 16, 2019 | exploration, Launches, NASA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News, Technology
While Hollywood has long flagged the dangers of asteroid and comet impact via its science fictional disaster movies Meteor (1979), Deep Impact (1998) and Armageddon (1998), real life space seemed to have no solution to the threat. Now NASA, in conjunction with John...
by David Todd | Apr 10, 2019 | exploration, NASA
At the 35th Space Symposium in Colorado on 9 April 2019 NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine hung some meat on the bare bones of a plan to return humans to the Moon by 2024 – an challenge made last month by Vice President Mike Pence and accepted by Bridenstine on...
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 | Feb 19, 2019 | Apollo, exploration, History, NASA, On a Lighter Note
Most wise humans know that while we should take our roles seriously as workers, parents, carers and the like, we should not take ourselves too seriously. Nothing saps the spirit like having a po-faced professional colleague whose humourless attitude tends to get...
by David Todd | Feb 7, 2019 | commercial launch services, exploration, Launches, NASA
The United Launch Alliance (ULA) has won a NASA contract to launch the LUCY mission – a “Discovery-class” mission to the Trojan asteroids. Using an Atlas V 401 launch vehicle, the mission will launch in October 2021. Launch-related costs are set to total US$148.3...
