In 1964, in the Daily Express, Sydney Jordan’s ‘Jeff Hawke’ strip ran a story called ‘Moonstruck’. Detail from ‘Moonstruck’, story and art by Sydney Jordan, Daily Express, 23/10/64 – 11/12/64, reprinted in William Rudling, ed., The Lunar 10, Jeff Hawke Club, 2007. “The ‘Jeff Hawke’ title is the copyright of The Daily Express and created by Sydney Jordan. “
Interested in finding out more about The Moon? The Orkney News has several articles about The Moon, many of them written by space expert Duncan Lunan.
“just when I thought it was safe to come out of the moonlight”…Petavius B pyramidal closeup
Solar activity 3000 BC to present, by Nick Portwin after John A. Eddy).Find out more in this article by Duncan Lunan
‘Crossing the Crater’ by cosmonaut artist Andrei Sokolov. Reported sightings of strange events involving the Moon go back for at least a thousand years…
“The US Astrobotic Peregrine and Griffin landers are coming, much bigger vehicles which already have dozens of contracts to deliver payloads to the Moon”
“In Man and the Planets (Ashgrove Press, 1983) ASTRA tried to show that any constructive approach to lunar development must include provision for independence and for Earth-Moon system federation, as a prelude to Solar System federation, and with the Moon as the most likely future seat of government “
“Hard though it is to believe now, in 1959 the standard method of returning images to Earth was by bringing back the exposed film in capsules. The US was doing it with its Discoverer satellites, and the off-course fall of one off Spitsbergen was the inspiration for Alastair Maclean’s Ice Station Zebra. “
Even if you live in the heart of a city, the one thing we can all see in the night sky is the Moon.
Read Duncan Lunan’s review of this fascinating book redressing the omissions in Scientific discovery
