July 2019
Lessons from our first race to the Moon
...rocket. Final lap Perhaps the main lesson from the first Moon race is that copious and consistent funding is needed The super-... the 1960s. Perhaps the main lesson from the first Moon race is that copious and consistent funding is needed until the ...
19 June 2019
The Race to the Moon Chronicled in Stamps, Postcards and Postmarks
... of the technology that made it possible has been told many times; but while cultural elements of the Moon race are often acknowledged, books are rarely dedicated to them. This book is an exception in that it covers a thriving field...
January 2023
Original Sin - Power, Technology and War in Outer Space
... original technological drive was military, with civil and commercial applications developed afterwards. The satellite and Moon races of the 1950s and 1960s were in part deliberate covers for developing essential military space technologies such...
30 December 2018
Rocket Men: the daring odyssey of Apollo 8
... difference”. “When Borman, Lovell, and Anders returned from the Moon”, he says, “few could argue… that they hadn’t seen... exaggerated to some readers, but those who lived through the Moon Race and the Cold War will identify. The book is based ...
