HUMANITY HAS CHANGED AN AWFUL LOT IN THE PAST 58 YEARS. THE MOON? NOT SO MUCH. It was in 1968 that astronauts first drew near the moon, and it will be early this year, if all goes as planned, that a c

Andy Saunders has devoted years to restoring historic NASA space images. Steve Fairclough spoke to him about his new book on the Mercury and Gemini missions

In the 1960s, American project developer and writer Stewart Brand played a part in the LSD-based counterculture of San Francisco. Along with author Ken Kesey and composer Ramón Sender Barayón, he co-p

When did you first hear about Jeremiah Horrocks? As a child, I saw him and his telescope on the stained-glass windows at St Michael’s Church in Much Hoole, Lancashire. The windows, depicting his groun

This baker’s son achieved what every other hotblooded Stuttgart youngster could only dream of doing during West Germany’s post-war Economic Miracle: to race for Porsche and Mercedes-Benz. Herrmann was

SET TO TAKE HIS NEW LIVE SHOW AROUND THE WORLD, THE PHYSICIST AND PRESENTER REFLECTS ON HIS DEFINING TRAVEL EXPERIENCES