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on the Human Exploration of Space
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Space Chronicle Volume 6-1 January 2026
CONTENTS
40 YEARS OF EXPLORING SPACE
A curator's eye view of 40 years of hugely popular space exhibits at the Science Museum, London
Doug Millard
TEAL RUBY
Examining a mid-1980s plan to launch a polar-orbiting surveillance satellite from the Shuttle - until the Challenger accident.
Bert Vis
SPACE WATCHES GO AUTOMATIC
Could the in-thing among wristwatches in the mid-1960s also do the job on EVAs in outer space?
Philip Corneille
LAUNCHED IN THE UK?
Space Chronicle sets the record straight about the real first rocket launch from British soil to make it beyond the Von Kármán line.
Robin Brand FBIS
IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF ROBERT GODDARD
A profile of the man who built the first liquid-fuelled rocket 100 years ago, paving the way for space flight to become a reality.
Mat Irvine FBIS