Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson has passed away at the age of 101. She played a key role at NASA as a mathematician planning launch trajectories and re-entry modelling for the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing and the Mercury programme. She did this while overcoming the...
The venerable actor Kirk Douglas has finally passed away in February 2020 away at the age of 103. While the acclaimed US actor, who was this son of a Russian Jewish emigre, did not make many space or science fiction films – only the unmemorable Saturn 3 (1980)...
Regular readers of this column note that we celebrate the lives of aerospace (and sometimes comedy) heroes of the past who have recently died. One of these pilot heroes is Wing Commander Paul Farnes who has passed away at the age of 101. He was a RAF fighter pilot...
The comedy actor/director/writer Terry Jones has died at the age of 77 after suffering from a form of dementia. He was famously one of the Monty Python comedy team which gave rise to a seminal comedy television series and film series. Having co-directed the earlier...
We are sad to record the passing here of self taught TV botanist and naturalist David Bellamy who has died at the age of 86. Bellamy with his beard and slight speech impediment became famous on British television during the 1970s and 1980s and did much to promote the...
Flight Lieutenant Maurice Moundson has passed away at the age 101. As an RAF fighter pilot flying a multi-machine gun armed Hawker Hurricane in the World War II “Battle of Britain” in 1940, he had a probable “kill” when he destroyed a Junkers...
