Middle class Western men tend to die in their early-to-mid eighties. As such, it should not thus have been a surprise that Apollo 17 astronaut Eugene “Gene” Cernan died on 16 January at the age of 82. Nevertheless, it was a reminder to NASA that, unless it...
British-born astronaut and environmental specialist, Piers Sellers, has died at the age of 61 from pancreatic cancer. Sellars was born in Crowborough, Sussex, England and was educated at Leeds and Edinburgh Universities. He became a naturalised US citizen in 1991 as...
While the formal Star Wars story has had its beginnings explained in the subsequently-made less-than-good triumvirate of prequels (even if the third of these was not too bad), nevertheless, there was a strand from the very first made Star Wars film (the fourth of now...
Satellite Pay-TV and internet service provider Sky (formerly known as BSkyB) is likely to fall to a GBP£11.7 billion (US$14.2 million) take over bid by its largest shareholder 21st Century Fox, a firm controlled by the family of press and communications mogul, Rupert...
Whatever Russia’s television propaganda mouthpiece RT might say to try to convince otherwise, there has been widespread revulsion in the civilised world over the destruction of the Syrian city of Aleppo which has been mainly caused by a Russian and Syrian aerial...
On 8 December 2016, NASA and the rest of the USA was mourning the death of one of its astronaut heros – John Glenn – a US Marine fighter pilot of World War II and the Korean War – and the first American to orbit the Earth. Glenn made the first orbital spaceflight for...
