by David Todd | Mar 6, 2015 | commercial launch services, Military space, On a Lighter Note, SpaceX
Struck by increased completion from SpaceX, hindered by Russian restrictions on the Atlas V’s RD-180 engine being used for military launches, and aware that its Delta IV was, excepting its “Heavy” version, too costly to be competitive, the United...
by David Todd | Feb 23, 2015 | Apollo, NASA, On a Lighter Note, Technology
NASA often likes to mention how its programmes have given the world new technologies – most noticeably in the fields of new materials and digital computing. Among the spin-offs it remains rather coy about is a hi-tech lubricant, developed for the Space,...
by David Todd | Jan 16, 2015 | On a Lighter Note
In a bid to scupper the attempt of Nigel Farage, leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), to be elected MP for South Thanet in Kent, left-of-centre comedian Al Murray will stand for the seat in the May general election. He is doing so in...
by David Todd | Nov 24, 2014 | exploration, On a Lighter Note, Seradata News
After a “Basil Fawlty-style” hotel manager in Blackpool imposed a fine on a couple for writing a bad review about his hotel on Trip Advisor (apparently this fine was allowed by the hotel’s small print, but public opinion, along with the threat of Trading...
by David Todd | Nov 19, 2014 | exploration, On a Lighter Note
During the early 1960s, a slightly rude and risqué film called ‘Nude on the Moon’ was released. While that was a work of (near) nudist science fiction, it is now likely to become a reality – or, at least, indirectly. For while the crowd-funded...
by David Todd | Nov 14, 2014 | ESA, On a Lighter Note, Seradata News
After the ESA Philae lander landed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko to great plaudits, there was great surprise when Dr Matt Taylor, lead scientist on the successful Rosetta-Philae mission, showed the world that he already had artwork showing the successfully...
