With the evening sky becoming darker as the year goes on, the brighter stars are becoming more prominent and the constellation figures are coming back
The Sky Above You – September 2023
Lost on the Moon
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. “
Unbuild Your Own Solar System
Prof. Freeman Dyson’s suggestion that an advanced civilisation might break up the planets of its solar system and build a shell around its star, to utilise all the matter and energy available to it . Image of a Solid Dyson sphere, impossible
The Ownership of the Moon, Part 1
“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 “
Space Notes 10: The Earth from Space
1st colour image of Earth from ATS, Nov 10 1967. Explore the Earth as viewed from Space with Duncan Lunan
Space Notes: Howlers that Weren’t
“Jeff Hawke began as a squadron leader, an RAF test pilot sent up to investigate a UFO over southern England “
Apollo 17
This classic photograph of the Earth was taken on Dec. 7, 1972, by the crew of the final Apollo mission, Apollo 17, as they travelled toward the moon on their lunar landing mission
PROJECT STARSEED
Image: Mass driver in Low Earth Orbit (Sydney Jordan & Theyan Rich, 1987). Read about nuclear waste disposal in Space
Book Review: Chris Hadfield, “The Apollo Murders”
“The novel is set is 1973, just after the cancellation of the last Apollo missions to the Moon.”
And Finally…Yes, We Did Go To The Moon
The Public Affairs Officer at the Johnson Space Centre, Houston, remarked, “As you can see, it’s only a paper fender, but the Moon is real.”
