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 NASA TV, held...
by David Todd | Sep 12, 2012 | Apollo, exploration, History, NASA, Seradata News
On 12 September 1962, in a speech made at the Rice University, Houston, US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy announced a commitment to land men on the Moon by the end of the 1960s. The speech set NASA on a mission that it achieved with Apollo 11’s landing in...
by David Todd | Aug 28, 2012 | Apollo, exploration, History, NASA, Orion, Seradata News
Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the Moon in July 1969, has passed away on 25 August, three weeks after his 82nd birthday. Armstrong had been recovering from medical procedures to alleviate his blocked coronary arteries, when complications led to his...
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 estimation...
by Rob Coppinger | Jul 17, 2009 | Apollo, Technology
Last week Paul Coffman and Bob Biggs, former Rocketdyne engineers and members of the development teams for the J-2 and F-1 engines, respectively,spoke to Flightglobal through a teleconference organised by Pratt & Whitney RocketdyneBoth are now consultants on...
by Rob Coppinger | Jun 12, 2009 | Apollo, exploration, History, NASA
Three weeks and forty years ago today the NASA capsule pictured above was orbiting the Moon, on 22 May 1969. Apollo 10 and its crew, Eugene “Gene” Cernan, John Young and Thomas Stafford paved the way for the 20 July 1969 landing of Apollo 11 astronauts...
