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...
29 March 2018
The Secret Genesis of Area 51
...’, I don’t know what is! In ten chapters, this book recounts the reasoning behind the development of Area 51, its Cold War genesis and its use as a test site for the Fabled U-2 spyplane. It is crisply illustrated with contemporary black...
19 July 2018
The Long Space Age
... book investigates – in the words of its subtitle - “the economic origins of space exploration from colonial America to the Cold War”. It does so in four main chapters with somewhat obscure titles (for example, “In the eyes of the world: the...
20 July 2018
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: The NASA Mission Reports
... with a mission that utilised a spare Apollo spacecraft for an historic political meeting in orbit at the height of the Cold War. The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP), which took place in 1975, was a surprise to many at the time...
04 October 2018
Space cluster launch takes UK beyond the final frontier
...a major transformation from historic testing site into UK centre of excellence for technology. “Once the centre of the UK’s Cold War Rocket Research, Westcott is now home to a thriving nucleus of space companies and there is some really exciting work...
