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Yuri Gagarin with Gemini 4 astronauts

Yuri Gagarin: when the world admired Russia

Published 12 April 2021

Western leaders’ praise for the USSR’s achievement 60 years ago stands in stark contrast to their Russophobia today

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China’s Yutu-2 rover parked to the left of its Chang'e-4 lander

China and India set the pace in space

Published 19 July 2019

Fifty years on from the first Moon landings, the human conquest of space has changed

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China in space: conquests, reversals – and revival

Published 18 February 2014

The success, relapse and then partial resuscitation of its lunar explorer Yutu, or Jade Rabbit, should awaken us to the broad advance China has achieved in space

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Mir space station viewed from endeavour

Design for space

Published 22 July 1989

Inside the Command Module, Armstrong confronted no fewer than 650 switches, dials, motors, circuit breakers, controls and displays

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The culture of time and space

The culture of time and space

Published 10 June 1985

Review of Stephen Kern, The culture of time and space 1880-1918, and David Landes Revolution in time: clocks and the making of the modern world

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