In a bit of a public relations offensive by Russia (thankfully no chemical warfare is involved in this campaign) the Russian space agency, Roscosmos, has publicised the FIFA World Cup in Russia, by having two Cosmonauts, Anton Shkaplerov and Oleg Artemyev, practice...
While he might have a new girlfriend (the 30 year-old Canadian female singer Grimes) this has not tempered SpaceX supreme leader Elon Musk’s irascibility. Having been irritated by journalists reporting the woes at his Tesla car plant, Elon has decided to create...
NASA’s fine photographer Bill Ingalls has realised that he might have overdone it when he got in a little too close to get one of his trademark close-ups of the Falcon 9 Vandenberg launch, which was carrying the GRACE Follow-on (GRACE FO) two-satellite mission and the...
With the retirement in April of Robert Lightfoot, who has been standing in as NASA’s acting Admininistrator pending the US.Senate’s confirmation of Congressman Jim Bridenstine in the role, the space administration could essentially be “rudderless” for several...
Aficionado’s of aerospace comedy would note that the sequel of that Airplane film parody of 1970s’ Airport disaster films, Airplane II, not only had its Shuttle launch started by being jump started by a nearby automobile, it also subsequently had...
As a counter to the era of “fake news” and “alternative facts” a Japanese male astronaut (Norishige Kanai) who represents JAXA on the International Space Station (ISS) has now felt forced to apologise for the exaggeration he made over his...
