Red Moon

Houston, come in! RED MOON is back on @BBCRadio4Extra, so join us again on the dark side as MI5 officer Eddie Sloper uncovers a deadly conspiracy. Starring Philip Bulcock, William Hope and the late, great Stephen Critchlow. 🌘 🚀 💥 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

“2001: A Space Odyssey” poster art by Robert McCall.

"Model not to scale."

AN ENGLISHMAN'S CASTLE (BBC2, 1978): A chilling alt-history drama about a 70s England where the Nazis won WWII. Kenneth More is a soap opera writer who finds himself unwittingly drawn towards an underground resistance movement...

David Martin's cover art for The Space Gamer, no. 62, April 1983.

In 1977, Anglia TV's April Fools gag ALTERNATIVE 3 was aired, a mockumentary about the rich and powerful deserting the Earth to live on Mars, leaving the rest of us to die as climate change kills the planet. Unfortunately, strike action meant that it wasn't aired until 20 June...

Syd Mead pictures a space colony under construction, as seen in 1979's "Sentinel."

Underground colony on the Moon, illustrated by Davis Meltzer in National Geographic, February 1969.

The World Of The Future: Star Travel. Usborne Books, 1979.

Desperate spacemen, illustrated by Johnny Bruck.

Astronaut Dave Scott enjoys the view from the open hatch of the Apollo 9 command module, March 1969.

Skylab concept art from NASA's “Man in Space: Space in the Seventies,” 1971.

On the set of DESTINATION MOON, winner for best special effects at the 1952 Academy Awards.

Space shuttle concept art from North American Rockwell, ca. 1969.

NASA artist’s concept, 1964.

This week in 1964, President Johnson announced the Air Force YF-12A interceptor (calling it the A-11) as a cover for ongoing testing of the A-12 reconnaissance aircraft.

On this day in 1969, the Soviet Union launched the first test flight of its giant N-1 rocket. The test failed, as did the three that followed, and program was cancelled. A model of the N-1 rocket (pictured on the right next to a model of the Saturn V rocket) is in our collection.

Mars concept art from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, 1969.

Win your own spaceship with Kraft marshmallows!* (*competition closes in 1959)

NASA concept art by Les Bossinas, undated.

Off to the Moon! Amazing Stories, May 1929. Artist Frank R Paul got a lot right in this picture!