July 2014
Is there a space race or are India and China just coming of age?
... to develop its own human launch capability. The first manned Chinese spaceflight, Shenzhou 5, put astronaut Yang Liwei into... of Central Florida, comparing Tiangong 1 to the US's first space station. The diminutive Skylab launched in 1973 and,...
25 October 2016
Microsatellite launched by Shenzhou-11 mission
... (left) and Chen Dong (right) prior to launch. Credit: AFP According to an interview with Yang Liwei, China's first man in space, almost 40 experiments are planned for this mission, with nearly half relating to aerospace medicine. “All...
02 September 2019
Strange substance discovered by China's lunar rover on far side of the Moon
Despite passing its design lifetime of three Earth months, China’s Chang’e-4 lunar rover Yutu-2 – the first man-made spacecraft launched to the far side of the moon – is doing well. Really well in fact as while it continues on ...
08 April 2019
Afterglow: Reflections on the Golden Age of Moon Explorers
... spaceflight and it would be surprising if space book publishers were unprepared to celebrate the 50th anniversary of that first manned lunar landing. The fact that this one ‘got in early’ indicates the potential interest in producing a retrospective...
25 September 2020
Apollo’s Legacy - Perspectives on the Moon Landings
The 50th anniversary of the first manned lunar landing triggered a slew of books on the subject and it is hard to imagine what another one could add to ...
29 March 2018
Forever Young: a life of adventure in air and space
... seems to be almost de rigeur. Luckily for Young, and readers of this book, his publisher enlisted the author of “First Man: The Life of Neil Armstrong” to help him write it. The result is a fascinating read. In a foreword by Apollo 11 command module...
