When it comes to deciding which US astronaut was the best ever, there is a list of some obvious candidates all of which you would have liked on your crew. Of course the cool-under-fire types such as Apollo 11’s commander Neil Armstrong and the self-rescuing...
As Donald J. Trump approaches nearly one year in office as President of the United States, he has ordered the US Space agency, NASA, to put humans back on the Moon. President Trump said in his announcement on December 2017: “The directive I’m signing today will...
While pressurised sealed vessels like submarines have an obvious parallel in manned spacecraft.- there are also some elements of their technology which are actually shared between vessels flying in orbit and those under the sea. An example of one of these is the...
NASA has paid its respects to one of its former faithful servants, astronaut Richard (Dick) Gordon, who has passed away at the age of 88 during November. Gordon was the command module pilot on Apollo 12, the second lunar landing mission in late 1969. That happy and...
NASA has been showing of a new concept design for a manned Mars rover at the Kennedy Space Centre’s Visitor Centre. The six-wheeled solar powered design comes from the vehicle design studio of Parker Brothers Concepts. The firm is more used to making...
It is, of course, posterity that gets the final say on whether a U.S. President was any good or not, but as he leaves office we can, at least, make a preliminary comparison of President Barack Obama’s record against that of his immediate predecessor, George W....
