The seven foot two inch tall actor Peter Mayhew, who played the Chewbacca Wookiee role in the long running Star Wars movie series beginning in 1977, has passed away at the age of 74. Mayhew originally did acting part time in between his job as a hospital porter. ...
Former NASA astronaut Owen Garriott has passed away at his home in Huntsville Alabama at the age of 88. Garriott was an electrical engineer by profession, becoming a professor in the subject at Stanford University. Having previously served as an electronics officer...
We are sad to note that real life early cosmonaut Valery Fyodorovich Bykovsky has passed away at the age of 84. He flew on his first spaceflight on Vostok 5 in 1963 as well as on Soyuz 22 and Soyuz 31 in the second half of the 1970s. Meantime, in the fictional world,...
Seradata is sad to learn of the passing of Welsh comedy actor Windsor Davies at the age of 88. While he had appeared in small parts in several films, Davies came to prominence in the 1970s appearing in two carry on films, including the just-about-ok Carry On Behind...
Regular readers of this column will note that in addition to celebrating the lives of luminaries of space, Seradata also marks the passing of those who have entertained us in the past. One of these is now Dame June Whitfield who has died at the age of 93. After...
At the end of November there was yet another sign that the World War II veterans are becoming an endangered species. Former U.S. President George H. W. Bush, who bravely served as a torpedo bomber aviator in the US Navy and who was even shot down, has passed away at...
