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...
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...
