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...
08 October 2020
Asgardia joins International Astronautical Federation
..., including all leading space agencies, companies, research institutions, universities, societies, associations, institutes and museums worldwide. Asgardia Terra Ark, a prototype of the future space nation state of Asgardia, is a non-governmental...
01 April 2025
Cosmonaut - A Cultural History
... with a Coke bottle in the background. Subsequent chapters cover the role of women; the culture of space collectables, museums and films; the decline in the need for heroes; and the ramifications of the decline of the Soviet...
