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...
While space insurance executives can be an all too serious bunch, every now and again one of them turns up on TV to amuse us all. Long-time space insurance broker Roger Bathurst, who recently left Willis Towers Watson and the business, appeared on the television...
There are still some in the world who hold onto stupid beliefs in spite of all of the evidence. No – we do not mean climate change or moon landing deniers, or even certain religious creationists…although we do have our doubts about all of them, but rather those Flat...
Hurricane Ophelia and its remnant storm may have tragically killed three as it caused extensive damage in the Republic of Ireland, however, as it tracked northwards (as imaged by NOAA’s and NASA’s spacecraft) it caused relatively little damage to mainland Britain....
While we all know that SpaceX has managed to land its Falcon 9 first stages successfully, the firm has, for a bit of fun, released footage of its failed attempts…and some are jolly amusing (see the drunkenly sliding rocket especially). Mind you, they put the...
