The culture shapers: space travel

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As NASA prepares to launch a mission to the lunar South Pole i

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Homes & Antiques Magazine

23 July, 2025

Saga Magazine

Out of this world

Using original photographs from the golden era of space travel, a new book unveils NASA’s thrilling first spaceflights

The Big Issue

The first frontier

Astronaut Jim Lovell died this month, aged 97, one of the last of the original pioneers of space exploration. He missed out on Nasa’s early Mercury missions but was selected for the Gemini programme,

SFX

Where dared eagles

NEVER MIND THE COMMLOCKS AS WE RETURN TO MOONBASE ALPHA TO CELEBRATE 50 YEARS OF SPACE: 1999 , THE COLDEST, STRANGEST ANDERSON SHOW OF ALL

Radio Times Magazine

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SPACE:1999 Celebrating 50 years of the sci-fi ...

Country Living - UK

An astronomer

Planetary physicist Dr Sheila Kanani on why now is the time to spot shooting stars and a sunlit Saturn

BBC Sky at Night Magazine

First contact seven missions that gave us our first real look at alien worlds

This October marks 50 years since a heavily shielded spacecraft, the Soviet Union’s Venera 9, parachuted into the atmosphere of Venus. Then, having landed, it did something extraordinary: it beamed ba