by David Todd | Aug 23, 2014 | Apollo, History, On a Lighter Note, Seradata News, SpaceX
While the urban legend joke about the moonwalking Neil Armstrong congratulating his childhood next door neighbour Mr. Gorsky under his breath on the Moon is untrue (the apocryphal story is too rude to print here but here is a link 🙂 ), and while the Apollo 11...
by David Todd | Mar 26, 2014 | Add category, Apollo, History
For those of us old enough to remember the Apollo moon landings, as this writer does just about, it is always a thrill to meet those few remaining astronauts who have managed to set foot on the Moon. And given that these jut-jawed, all-American heroes of the past are...
by David Todd | Mar 10, 2014 | Apollo, History, NASA, Russia, Seradata News, Space Shuttle
Skylab astronaut Bill Pogue has died on 3 March at the age of 84. Originally selected as an astronaut in 1966, having previously been a pilot in the US Air Force Thunderbirds display team, Pogue made his one and only spaceflight as the Command Module pilot in the...
by David Todd | Mar 7, 2014 | Apollo, History
During a lecture at the British Interplanetary Society, London, in February, the space writer and former space engineer, Dr David Baker, who worked on NASA’s Gemini, Apollo and Skylab projects, revealed that the Apollo landng module that put man on the moon,...
by David Todd | Jan 31, 2014 | Apollo, History, NASA
Space memorabilia and camera collectors (this writer counts as both) will be in a frenzy as the world’s only still film camera to have been carried on the Moon and returned to Earth, a Hasselblad EDC (a modified EL), comes up for sale at auction. The example on...
by David Todd | Oct 9, 2013 | Apollo, China, exploration, History, JAXA, NASA, Russia, Science, Seradata News, Technology
It is at this time of year (well actually a little later than usual) when the Flightglobal/Ascend space team considers who is in the lead in the race to return astronauts to the Moon. Last year, we did an analysis of what a nation needed to put its astronauts on the...
