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Chilton wrote three Journey Into Space novels, one for each of the three original series. The first novel, titled Journey Into Space, told the story of Journey to the Moon and was the first book that Chilton had written. [1] It was published in hardback by Herbert Jenkins in 1954, followed by The Red Planet in 1956, [3] and The World in Peril ...
Operation Luna is a science fantasy novel by American writer Poul Anderson, published in August 1999; it is the sequel to the 1971 fixup novel Operation Chaos by the same author. It centers around a space flight attempt and the efforts of Coyote and several Oriental antagonists to stop it.
Journey into Space (1953–5), radio Operation Luna 1965+ British Commonwealth astronauts on a trip to the Moon and beyond. Hugh Allenby (Commander/Astronomer) Burton (Pilot) Janus (Photographer) Gonzales (Botanist) Randolph (Biologist) Peters (Mineralogist) "The Holes Around Mars" (1954), short story Mars I: Unknown
Luna 1 (E-1 No.4) Luna 1: 2 January 1959: Luna: OKB-1: Impactor: Partial failure Carrier rocket guidance problem resulted in failure to impact Moon, flew past in a heliocentric orbit. [10] Closest approach 5,995 kilometres (3,725 mi) on 4 January. [11] First spacecraft to fly by the Moon. 9: Pioneer 4: Pioneer 4: 3 March 1959: Juno II: NASA ...
A substance similar to cavorite (called gravitar) is used in Space: 1889 & Beyond, which also features a character called Rear Admiral Herbert Cavor and the indigenous population of Luna are called Selenites (the name being derived from the same source material mentioned in The First Men in the Moon). This series also features a character ...
The Luna-25 was in a race with an Indian spacecraft launched on July 14 to be the first to reach the south pole. Both were expected to reach the moon between Aug. 21 and 23. Both were expected to ...
The head of Russia's space agency said Monday that the Luna-25 spacecraft crashed into the moon after its engines failed to shut down correctly, and he blamed the country's decades-long pause in ...
The SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule that will carry them into orbit will lift off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida atop a Falcon 9 rocket. The launch window is from 3:30 to 7 a.m., according ...