September 2021
Near space - the air-space boundary question, astronauts and space tourism
...), neither of which takes the discussion any further forward. As the OST was written at the height of the Cold War, those drafting it were keen to ensure that conflict in the field of human spaceflight did not spill over...
September 2023
A multifaceted approach to space sustainability
... conducted since the 1960s, mostly by the United States and the former Soviet Union during the Cold War. Although no such tests were performed from the late 1980s to the mid-2000s, since the mid...
May 2025
Mythologies of Outer Space - A new perspective on the final frontier
... Zambia’s 1960s space programme, which, while often dismissed as absurd, may have been a sharp political critique of Cold War-era space ambitions. The film reflects a deeper human tendency to see the cosmos as a domain of symbolic and...
01 April 2016
Joke Carved into Olympus Mons by Unknown Race Discovered
... a silver cylinder shaped like a missile with an antenna at the top on his lawn. Living in the middle of the Cold War and the Space Race, Loy understandably assumed that the object was a fallen Soviet satellite, similar...
26 February 2018
Infinity Beckoned: Adventuring Through the Inner Solar System, 1969-1989
...early ones described the technology and the missions; later, more professional texts analysed political motives in a Cold War context; and then, in search of a different angle, authors began to concentrate on the personalities. This book is very much...
26 February 2018
Why do we go into space?
... years after the famous flight of Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in 1961. This flight, which was part of a Cold War “space race” between two governments, culminated with humans walking on the Moon more than 50 years ago...
