It is the farthest continuously manned outpost of humanity, the International Space Station, launched in November 1998 and orbiting around four hundred kilometres above the surface of the
Houston, 1973, the latter years of the American manned space programme and the astonishing ups and terrifying downs obtained at colossal cost which defined the greatest undertaking ever.
The stars which burn the brightest also burn the briefest, and so it was for Skylab, consumed in the fires of re-entry over the deserts of Western Australia
Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids, a truth sung long before trainee astronaut Sarah Loreau was born; too late to experience the Moon landings
