Contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Dedication
  3. Epigraph
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Prologue
  6. The Spoils of War
  7. Object D
  8. The Past and the Future
  9. Gagarin
  10. Mare Cognitum
  11. ‘Before this decade is out’
  12. The Judgement of Cape Flight
  13. A Fair Solar Wind
  14. ‘I wanted to beat the Russians. I didn’t like Russians.’
  15. Plugs Out
  16. Apollo is Faltering
  17. A Minor Mutiny
  18. ‘You have bailed out 1968’
  19. A Foreign and Hostile Environment
  20. ‘The greatest week in the history of the world’
  21. ‘Houston, we’ve had a problem’
  22. The Long Goodbye
  23. The Melancholy of All Things Done
  24. Sources
  25. Bibliography
  26. Index
  27. Plates
  28. Copyright