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By Andy Cooke Common Bigshot Stanley, from Pirates of Penzance. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. When writing any organisation with...

By Andy Cooke Buzz Aldrin removing the passive seismometer from a compartment in the Lunar Lander, OTL. Picture courtesy Wikimedia...

By Andy Cooke Snoopy is heading to the Moon. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. This is part 3 of an in-depth look at For All Mankind....

By Andy Cooke. The famous Earthrise photo taken from Apollo 8. Picture courtesy NASA (public domain). Part 1 of this article series can...

By Andy Cooke For All Mankind, from Apple TV. Picture courtesy Apple. Introduction We are living in a Golden Age for alternate history in...

By Andy Cooke. We all know what's happening here. Don't we? Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. This is the third and final part of...

Marooned Guest: Andy Cooke. Need I say more? Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Once again, we interview our guest who is about to be...

By Andy Cooke. The action is set here, in the seat of power. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Part 1 of this series can be found here....

No, not that sort of panel beating. Image courtesy Wikimedia commons. In this article, I’ll be posing a few questions for some regulars...

Questions from Gary Oswald This Interview is with Andy Cooke, the first editor of this blog and a prolific writer for both Sea Lion Press...

By Andy Cooke In my last article, I’d covered Gemini up to Gemini 9 – Gene Cernan’s hellish spacewalk, which uncovered that EVA was a...

By Andy Cooke Last time, I got up to the marathon trip of Gemini 7 – where Frank Borman and Jim Lovell (who would later be part of the...

By Andy Cooke Fiction holds up a mirror to reality. As well as our deep-seated urge to create a narrative structure around the world in...

By Andy Cooke Following the successful completion of the Mercury programme (and NASA managing to sidestep a series of potential...

By Andy Cooke When you’re pushing the limits of human knowledge – and doing so in a race, to boot – you’re going to be raking some risks....

By Andy Cooke The Moon Race was a close-run thing. Oh, not that the Soviets were close to winning. Even before Korolyev died on the...

By Andy Cooke What Could Have Happened... February 1997 The ageing Mir space station could support three people routinely. At the...

By Andy Cooke The Space Exploration Initiative On July 20th, 1989, President George H W Bush announced the Space Exploration Initiative....

By Andy Cooke The Soviets were worried. Ronald Reagan's rhetoric on his "Strategic Defence Initiative" was vivid, although was it...

By Andy Cooke On Christmas Day, 1968, Apollo 8 entered lunar orbit smoothly - the first manned spacecraft to reach the Moon. It was the...