19 February 2018
Space Launch Complex 10: Vandenberg’s Cold War National Landmark
... the subject. This book is different in that its author is a former US Air Force space and missile officer and self-confessed ‘amateur space historian’. His experiences as a young lieutenant at Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) in California prompted...
04 February 2018
Australia in Space
... that the remains of the deorbiting Skylab space station fell within its territory. This is, of course, a gross misrepresentation of the nation’s activities in space, as Australian space historian Kerrie Dougherty reveals in her new book. Although...
July 2019
A reluctant American hero
... in 1966, when the first ever spacecraft docking in space with another vehicle was accomplished with an Agena target ...’s progress The “gifts of Apollo” as described by space historian Prof Chris Riley also include a significant new awareness of...
September 2017
Australia’s unique space history
... from Woomera. Woomera was also the home of space tracking facilities initially established in conjunction with the International... Kerrie Dougherty is an independent curator and space historian with more than 30 years’ experience working in museums...
June 2022
Pandemic parallels
..., however, that lessons can be learned for long-duration space travel from the lockdowns resulting from Covid. Outer space, as has been noted by science journalist and space historian Andrew Chaikin, is “a place of such unrelenting sameness”. Despite...
January 2021
Spacepower and international relations
...strategy and international relations must grapple with the notion that space has become an adjunct to the security and well-...polarised space-centric view is confirmed by the space historian Brian Harvey, who wrote that: “the early years of space…...
