April 2026
Apollo lunar rover - the Lego version
... driven ‘off-world’, it could do no better than incorporate the Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle in the first lunar museum. Time, as ever, will tell. The real Apollo 15 lunar rover, one of three still parked on the Moon...
25 April 2018
The Final Mission: Preserving NASA’s Apollo Sites
... preservation and some ‘success stories’ in space preservation (which of course includes Apollo capsules and other equipment in museums around the world). This is an academic but readable book. It has a 12-page reference section and an 11-page double...
31 December 2018
Rocket Men: the daring odyssey of Apollo 8
...that he was emotionally ‘sold’ on Apollo 8 from the moment he saw the recovered Command Module in a Chicago museum. Although he sees similarities in today’s political situation, he recognises that the mission itself provided a “significant difference...
19 June 2019
Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C Clarke and the Making of a Masterpiece
... a well-known story of collaboration, but later ones depict a lawsuit filed by Ordway on behalf of an international space museum he co-founded (all part of a misunderstanding about non-profit and for-profit companies). Speculating that Ordway was...
01 October 2019
Cosmic Discovery: the Search, Scope and Heritage of Astronomy
.... So why republish now? The author – astronomy professor at Cornell and director of Washington’s National Air and Space Museum – tackles the question head on in his preface to this new edition. The main reason is, he says, that many...
25 September 2020
Baikonur - Vestiges of the Soviet Space Programme
... and years of neglect following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. To be frank, even a visit to a launch pad and museum at the Cosmodrome does little to put the huge tracts of nothingness into perspective, which is where this book...
