September 2016
Transforming US space policy
When most people think of space, they think of the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union, the Apollo programme, Space Shuttle launches, the International Space Station; all high profile human exploration programmes carried out...
May 2022
China’s international collaboration in space: an evolving approach from the Middle Kingdom
... looking at what the future may hold for Chinese international space cooperation. In recent years, space has captured the imagination in a way not seen since the original space race of the 1960s. The rush of money and talent into...
31 December 2018
Rocket Men: the daring odyssey of Apollo 8
... exaggerated to some readers, but those who lived through the Moon Race and the Cold War will identify. The book is based on...sand and wondered whether he should risk everything to win the Space Race and help save the world”. Two pages later the author...
March 2015
Russia and safe space initiatives
... on verification under a future treaty. A replica of Sputnik 1. Launched in 1957, it gave the Soviet Union an early advantage in the Space Race Russia is ready to continue collaboration with the EU on a draft International Code of Conduct for Outer...
20 May 2022
Reaching for the Moon
...familiar reanalysis of the superpower space race. The book is subtitled “A Short History of the Space Race” and it is certainly that... d’etre? The back-cover endorsements from well-known space writers use words like “fascinating”, “important” and ...
April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
... a national impetus existed to race into space again. The question is: can another race really lead to a sustainable,...technical problems that prevented it docking with the International Space Station. The capsule used parachutes and airbags to make...
