25 September 2020
Baikonur - Vestiges of the Soviet Space Programme
... favourite. The Baikonur Cosmodrome is among the most notable, not least because it launched the world’s first satellite and first manned spacecraft. It is also one of the least well understood, thanks to decades of Cold War obfuscation and years...
19 June 2019
Shoot for the Moon
... the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, the first manned lunar landing mission, and this book commemorates... readers of Apollo books will spot the familiar pattern from the first words of the first chapter: “One Saturday morning in October 1957, a 14-year-...
01 October 2019
Moonshot: the flight of Apollo 11
... 11 mission has brought a slew of new books to the market in celebration of the first manned lunar landing…and that includes this book for kids. First published in 2009 and expanded for this 2019 edition, it is based on illustrations in watercolour...
July 2014
A revitalised space sector reduces costs and makes space data more accessible
...The launch of the first artificial Earth satellite, followed four years later by the first man in space, resonated with... started to become apparent with the launch of the first communications satellites in the 1960s. Nowadays, weather satellites are...
August 2016
Fireflies and saucers
...Canaveral, Florida, during preflight training activities for his Mercury- Atlas 6 flight in 1962. He made America’s first manned Earth-orbital spaceflight completing three orbits of Earth. “It all started when I saw the ‘flying saucers’,” he recalled...
July 2020
Lego’s replica space programme
... which is presumably a nod to the year of the first manned landing. Each of the three rocket stages are separable, ...been occupied continuously for two decades, since the launch of the first component in 1998. This 864-piece set is a decent facsimile ...
