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Peter Fairley (2 November 1930 – 5 August 1998) [1] was a British science journalist who was the Science Editor for Independent Television News and TV Times magazine the late sixties and early seventies. His name became synonymous with ITN's extensive live coverage of the Apollo Moon landing missions.
His big, early stories included the Torrey Canyon oil spill, off the Isles of Scilly in 1967, and the Space Race. He was chairman of the Association of British Science Writers. [1] Described by the Financial Times as one of the "three giants" of science journalism in his era, Wright died on 6 May 2005. [2]
Grace Marguerite, Lady Hay Drummond-Hay (née Lethbridge, 12 September 1895 – 12 February 1946) was a British journalist, who was the first woman to travel around the world by air (in a zeppelin). Although she was not an aviator herself at first, she contributed to the glamour of aviation and general knowledge of it, by writing articles about ...
Reginald Turnill began his career at the age of 15 as a reporter's telephonist at the Press Association, the British news agency, becoming a reporter by 1935. [3] After war service as a machine gunner in the Middlesex Regiment, and as a warrant officer reporting courts martial for the Judge Advocate General's department in Naples, [3] he returned to the Press Association in 1946, [1] where he ...
He died in 2022, following a long battle with cancer. Reg Turnill – BBC's air and space correspondent from 1958 until 1975, covering all manned space flights as well as the introduction of passenger jets, including Concorde. After retiring from this role, he continued as Newsround ' s space editor until the mid-1980s. He died in 2013.
Moore was born in Pinner, Middlesex, on 4 March 1923 [5] to Capt. Charles Trachsel Caldwell-Moore MC (died 1947) [6] and Gertrude (née White) (died 1981). [6] His family moved to Bognor Regis, and subsequently to East Grinstead where he spent his childhood. His youth was marked by heart problems, which left him in poor health, and he was ...
After the name, denotes sub-orbital space travellers who have flown into orbit on a subsequent space flight. After the name, denotes space travellers who have flown to the Moon without landing. After the name, denotes space travellers who have walked on the Moon. ‡ After the name, denotes those who died during their first spaceflight. [nb 1] †
Journalists who enquired of Clarke whether he was gay were told, "No, merely mildly cheerful." [32] However, Michael Moorcock wrote: Everyone knew he was gay. In the 1950s, I'd go out drinking with his boyfriend. We met his protégés, western and eastern, and their families, people who had only the most generous praise for his kindness.