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) celebrated the win in a competitive bidding situation of a NASA contract to launch the LUCY mission – a “Discovery-class” mission to the Trojan asteroids. The launch is to use an Atlas V 401 launch vehicle. The...
by David Todd | Jan 28, 2019 | NASA, Seradata News
Having not got the US$5 billion he asked for his border wall with Mexico, US President Donald Trump blocked all budget funding for non-military and non-essential government departments causing a government shutdown since 22 December. This resulted in most...
by David Todd | Dec 31, 2018 | NASA
The US National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA) has, in common with other US government departments, suffered a partial shutdown following the failure of Congress to pass its funding via an appropriations bill. A dispute over funding for President Trump’s...
by David Todd | Nov 27, 2018 | exploration, NASA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
At 2101 GMT on 27 November 2018, via UHF signals converted to X-band signals on two released Mars Cube One (MarCO A and B) data relay spacecraft and via the Deep Space Network on Earth, it was confirmed to NASA engineers, at the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, that...
