[Don't miss your chance to get your copy of Rediscovery: Science Fiction by Women (1958-1963), some of the best science fiction of the Silver Age. If you like the Journey, you'll love this book (and you'll be helping us out, too!) by Cora Buhlert Here in Germany, the Iron Curtain just got a tiny hole, … Continue reading [November 5, 1964] The State of the Solar Empire: Perry Rhodan in 1964
With the recent American lunar triumph, it is appropriate to take a look back at the long road that winds from Sputnik and ends in Oceanus Procellarum… by Gideon Marcus Shooting the Moon It all began with a dream. The Moon has captured our imaginations since we were first definably human. Some two thousand years … Continue reading [August 1, 1964] On Target (The Successful Flight of Ranger 7)
by Gideon Marcus It's Spreading 25 years ago, a group of fen met in New York for the first World's Science Fiction Convention. Now, conclaves are springing up all over the nation (and internationally, too). Just this weekend, I attended a small event ambitiously titled San Diego Comic Fest. It was a kind of "Comics-in," … Continue reading [March 9, 1964] Deviant from the Norm (April 1964 Galaxy)
by Gideon Marcus Another Lunar Black Eye NASA's Project Ranger, which is basically a projectile aimed at the moon, has logged failure after failure since it started back in 1961. The first ones in the series, Rangers 1 and 2, were just Earth-orbiting satellites designed to test the engineering and return scientific data. Both of … Continue reading [February 5, 1964] That was the Month that Was (January's Space Roundup)
by Gideon Marcus Nearly six years ago, the Russians threw down the gauntlet with Sputnik. Then they upped the ante with the orbit of Yuri Gagarin in April 1961. It's hard to believe that, in just two years, America has not only answered the Soviet challenge but completed its first manned space program. For those … Continue reading [May 16, 1963] Going out with style (Gordo Cooper's Faith 7 Mercury flight)
by Gideon Marcus Baby's first step… Take Four Out in Huntsville, Alabama, Von Braun's team is busy making the biggest rockets ever conceived. The three-stage Saturn V, with five of the biggest engines ever made, will take people to the Moon before the decade is out. But NASA's is justifiably leery of running before walking. … Continue reading [Apr. 29, 1963] When a malfunction isn't (the flight of Saturn I #4 and other space tidbits)
by Gideon Marcus February and March have been virtually barren of space shots, and if Gordo Cooper's Mercury flight gets postponed into May, April will be more of the same. It's a terrible week to be a reporter on the space beat, right? Wrong! I've said it before and I'll say it again. Rocket launches … Continue reading [March 24, 1963] Bumper Crop (A bounty of exciting space results)
[if you’re new to the Journey, read this to see what we’re all about!] by Gideon Marcus Remember five years ago, when Explorer 1 was launched? At first, the big news was that America had answered Sputnik and joined the Space Age, but it soon became clear that the flight had larger significance. For Explorer … Continue reading [January 15, 1963] Venus' true face (Scientific Results of Mariner 2)
[if you’re new to the Journey, read this to see what we’re all about!] By Ashley R. Pollard One part of me wants to ask where has the year gone? The other part of me say, what a year this has been for British science fiction. A mere five years ago the idea of spaceship … Continue reading [November 25, 1962] Great Balls of Fire! (Gerry Anderson's new series, Fireball XL5)
[if you’re new to the Journey, read this to see what we’re all about!] by Gideon Marcus Sometimes, the future comes so fast, it bewilders. This rushing feeling I've had all month must be similar to what my grandparents felt when the Wright Brothers first took off. For millennia, people have dreamed of flight, envying … Continue reading [July 29, 1962] What a Diff'rence a Month Made (July 1962 in spaceflight)
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