While the BBC’s science fiction output of the 1970s and 1980s, Dr Who, Blake’s 7 and the comedy show Red Dwarf, always had budget-restricted creaky sets and low-rent special effects, they did the best with what they had, and their inventive story lines and...
The Royal Thai Air Force has a history going back to 1913. It operates a potent fighter/fighter bomber force including F-16, Gripen and F-5 jets. And now it is getting into space. The Royal Thai Air Force has ordered a 6U Cubesat as a reconnaissance/Earth...
As the old joke goes: there are three types of people in this world…those that can count and those that can’t. One who certainly can is the African-American mathematician and human “computer” Katherine Colemon Goble Johnson who became...
Paul Spudis, lunar and planetary geologist, has passed away after suffering lung cancer. He was in his mid-sixties. Having graduated in planetary geology and gained a PhD, Spudis initially worked for the US Geological survey before moving onto NASA’s planetary...
SpaceX supreme leader, Elon Musk, is in trouble again – and again Twitter appears to be his downfall. Musk is alleged to have broken corporate law in using Twitter to publicly offer to buy back all the shares of his Tesla electric car concern in order to make it...
July saw more than its fair share of space announcements, including official acceptance of a “vertical” spaceport in Sutherland, North Scotland, and a “horizonal” one getting the nod from Virgin Galactic/Virgin Orbit at Newquay, Cornwall, England. But Cornwall has...
