Susan Macdonald, Author at SCIFI.radio

Robert Butler, Director on Pilots for ‘Batman,’ ‘Star Trek’, Dies at 95

Posted by Susan Macdonald | Nov 13, 2023 | Movies / Video / Theater, Obituaries |

Emmy winning director Robert Butler, who directed Star Trek’s pilot “The Cage,” which was later re-edited into “The Menagerie,” has died at the age of 95.

Apollo 8 Astronaut Frank Borman Passes Away at 95

Posted by Susan Macdonald | Nov 10, 2023 | Obituaries, Space Exploration |

Colonel Frank Borman, USAF, commander of the NASA Apollo 8 mission in 1968 has died.

Jeremy Renner, Hawkeye in the MCU and Real Life Hero, Relearns How to Walk

Posted by Susan Macdonald | Nov 9, 2023 | Movies / Video / Theater |

Jeremy Renner, who nearly lost his life saving his nephew from a driverless snowplow, is now relearning how to walk.

Astronaut Ken Mattingly, Hero of Apollo 13, Dead at 87

Posted by Susan Macdonald | Nov 5, 2023 | Obituaries, Space Exploration |

When an explosion crippled the spacecraft during its flight to the moon, Commander Mattingly—then the best trained man to fly the command module — went to work at Mission Control devising procedures that the astronauts used to help them return to the earth safely.