Apollo: The lost and forgotten missions by D. Shayler and D. Lind, Springer-Verlag/Praxis, 拢24.50, ISBN 1852335750 Development of the Space Shuttle 1972-1981: History of the space shuttle, Volume 2 by T. A. Heppenheimer, Smithsonian Institution Press, 拢28.50, ISBN 1588340090 The Continuing Story of the International Space Station by Peter Bond, Springer-Verlag/Praxis, 拢19.50, ISBN 185233567X Reviewed by Stephen Baxter
IT’S July 1969. Apollo 11 has just had lift-off. An exuberant vice-president, Spiro Agnew, proclaims that the US “should articulate a simple, ambitious, optimistic goal of a manned flight to Mars by the end of the century”. This was, after all, the original vision of rocket pioneer Wernher…
