Space flight

Dog Gone Shame

by Dominic Pettman, Eugene Thacker,

From Sad Planets, which will be published this month by Polity. The first female in space was not, as is commonly thought, Valentina Tereshkova in 1963, but Laika the dog,…

The Bed-Rest Hoax

by Alexandra Kleeman,

The case against a venerable pregnancy treatment

Weightless

Where’s everybody?

by Arthur Charles Clarke,

No go, space cadet!

by John McPartland,

Passenger flights by rocket?

by G. Edward (George Edward) Pendray,

The conquest of outer space

by Peter Van Dresser,

An approach to astronautics

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