31 December 2018
Rocket Men: the daring odyssey of Apollo 8
...assassinations that troubled America at the time. It’s clear from the Author’s Note that he was emotionally ‘sold’ on Apollo 8 from the moment he saw the recovered Command Module in a Chicago museum. Although he sees similarities in today’s political...
01 August 2019
Apollo’s Muse; the Moon in the age of photography
... books published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, this highly illustrated volume is published by... visual media go-to-guy, Tom Hanks, who (in considering the ‘was Apollo worth it’ question) opines: “Even the ranting of idiots who can...
01 October 2019
Moonfire: the epic journey of Apollo 11
... space aficionados who were around to experience it, the name of Norman Mailer will forever be associated with the Apollo programme because of his 1970 book A Fire on the Moon (Weidenfeld & Nicolson). Mailer was already a well-known...
01 October 2019
Where Once We Stood - Stories of the Apollo astronauts who walked on the Moon
... repeats to himself. It kind of sums it up nicely”. The book itself is divided into six chapters (on Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17). The Apollo 11 chapter begins with a brief exchange between Armstrong and Aldrin as the former, on hands and knees...
01 October 2019
Returning People to the Moon after Apollo
...?”- is a palpable expression of the author’s frustration and, being one of a select band of British engineers to work on the Apollo programme, he is as entitled as anyone. Reflecting the author’s interest in space history, the first half of the book...
August 2020
Scorpion – a study of the possible
... Scorpion concept was of a crewed general purpose space transport system that could, as a minimum, undertake the post-Apollo programme objectives. The two constraints were, firstly, that it would be solely supported by Skylon for both construction...
