31 December 2018
Rocket Men: the daring odyssey of Apollo 8
... may seem exaggerated to some readers, but those who lived through the Moon Race and the Cold War will identify. The book is based on extensive interviews with the three crewmembers, two of their wives and...
15 June 2020
Space Dogs - The story of the celebrated canine cosmonauts
..., cigarette cases, ornaments and myriad dog-related items, helped to validate Russia as the superior power in the Cold War. This, in itself, is quite a statement, but the author goes as far as to compare the Soviet space dogs with...
25 September 2020
Baikonur - Vestiges of the Soviet Space Programme
... world’s first satellite and first manned spacecraft. It is also one of the least well understood, thanks to decades of Cold War obfuscation and years of neglect following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. To be frank, even a visit to a launch pad...
08 January 2023
Spaceflight
...-page bibliography. But somehow he covers the gamut of spaceflight - from “dreams and military imperatives” and the “Cold War space race”, via science, exploration and the space infrastructure, to “Astroculture” and human spaceflight - in six pithy...
23 March 2026
SpaceX: Elon Musk and the Final Frontier
... author’s apparent need for historical context. Following a short thesis on Fukuyama’s declared “end of history” after the Cold War, a potted history of the space race and a review of Space Shuttle accidents, the author finally introduces SpaceX...
