We are sad not note the passing of comedian, and theatre director Sir Jonathan Miller. While he originally trained as a doctor at Cambridge University, Sir Jonathan Miller made his name as a comic wit starting off in the Beyond the Fringe satirical show which featured...
Alexei Leonov, the first human to move in space outside a spacecraft, has died at the age of 85. The former cosmonaut made the first spacewalk on 18 March 1965, beating Ed White’s NASA spacewalk during Gemini IV on 3 June by nearly three months. Born on 30 May 1934,...
Two days after the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Apollo 11 landing, one man who was key to the mission – and to all the other NASA crewed missions of that era – Christopher Columbus Kraft Jr, passed away at the age of 95. Having trained for...
While spaceflight and space insurance has its fair share of colourful characters, they pale when it comes to some others involved in measuring risk. As such, we are sad to reveal that the world of horse racing and betting has just said goodbye to one of its biggest...
Few would have counted on Austrian racing driver Niki Lauda making three score years and ten after his near fatal crash at the German Grand Prix in 1976. And yet three time Formula One (F1) motor racing champion Niki Lauda did make it to 70. However, in effect, his...
The actress and singer Doris Day never really made a space movie, though one, The Glass Bottom Boat (1966), in which she co-starred with Rod Taylor, was a comedy romance/spy film whose plot involved the attempted theft of NASA space secrets. Despite this lack of...
