Larry Ketchersid, new novelist, author of Dusk before the Dawn, and fellow listee on Paul Levinson’s list of Best First SciFi Novels, opens his review of Red Moon with the following praise: The US-USSR space race re-imagined, with historical fiction combined with a near-future earth on the brink; a great read, not just for NASA [...]
by Daniel Brenton on November 19, 2007
in Space
There is a bizarre story involving the Soviet space program that originally circulated in the late 1980s, and still pops up here and there on the internet. Attributed to The Washington Post, the story spoke of six Soviet cosmonauts being witness to seven giant figures hanging in space, in the form of humans, with mist-like [...]
by Daniel Brenton on November 10, 2007
in Space
Did Soviet cosmonauts die in space in the early 1960s? Any space buff worth his or her salt is keenly aware of the tragic fate of Vladimir Komarov, who died on April 24, 1967, due to parachute failure after the reentry of Soyuz 1. But the question really is: were there events like this (or [...]