As we prepare to go to the UK Space Conference in the city of Manchester in a week’s time, all of us at Seradata give our sympathies to the victims of the pop concert terrorist bombing there on 22 May 2017 as well as their families and friends.
We give our condolences to those who have suffered during the Islamic State-inspired terrorist outrage in London during March. Worryingly, it showed that a religious or sectarian terrorist does not need a Kalashnikov or suicide bomb to kill the innocent – a...
The film actor Bill Paxton has died following complications after an operation. He was 61 years old. Paxton is best known by space aficionados for his role in the science fiction action film Aliens (1986) and starring as astronaut Fred Haise in the movie retelling of...
By the time the much loved 53-year-old singer and songwriter, George Michael, had expired on Christmas day, there had already been much comment on the apparently high number of stars and celebrities who had died during the year. However, there was still more sad news...
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...
After a long illness, Jos Heyman, died on 30th September, 2016. The well known space writer who was born in the Netherlands in 1944, was based in Perth, Western Australia for much of his life. Heyman was an accountant by profession but became an expert writer on...
