Wait - Why does the Chief answer to the Servant in the Army?
By Andy Cooke Common Bigshot Stanley, from Pirates of Penzance. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. When writing any organisation with...
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- Jul 8
- 8 min
Alternate Space. For All Mankind: Part 4
By Andy Cooke Buzz Aldrin removing the passive seismometer from a compartment in the Lunar Lander, OTL. Picture courtesy Wikimedia...
- Jun 3
- 13 min
Alternate Space. For All Mankind: Part Three.
By Andy Cooke Snoopy is heading to the Moon. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. This is part 3 of an in-depth look at For All Mankind....
- May 8
- 6 min
Alternate Space For All Mankind, Part 2.
By Andy Cooke. The famous Earthrise photo taken from Apollo 8. Picture courtesy NASA (public domain). Part 1 of this article series can...
- Apr 17
- 8 min
Alternate Space. For All Mankind.
By Andy Cooke For All Mankind, from Apple TV. Picture courtesy Apple. Introduction We are living in a Golden Age for alternate history in...
- Dec 27, 2023
- 12 min
Westminster with Proportional Representation. Part 3
By Andy Cooke. We all know what's happening here. Don't we? Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. This is the third and final part of...
- Dec 20, 2023
- 8 min
The Alternate Lavender Island: Andy Cooke
Marooned Guest: Andy Cooke. Need I say more? Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Once again, we interview our guest who is about to be...
- Nov 27, 2023
- 8 min
Westminster with Proportional Representation. Part 2.
By Andy Cooke. The action is set here, in the seat of power. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Part 1 of this series can be found here....
- Apr 5, 2023
- 15 min
Panel Beating
No, not that sort of panel beating. Image courtesy Wikimedia commons. In this article, I’ll be posing a few questions for some regulars...
- Aug 18, 2022
- 10 min
Interview: Andy Cooke
Questions from Gary Oswald This Interview is with Andy Cooke, the first editor of this blog and a prolific writer for both Sea Lion Press...
- May 2, 2020
- 8 min
The Launchbox, PoD 15: The Near Misses of Gemini (Part 3)
By Andy Cooke In my last article, I’d covered Gemini up to Gemini 9 – Gene Cernan’s hellish spacewalk, which uncovered that EVA was a...
- Apr 4, 2020
- 8 min
The Launchbox, Pod 14: The Near Misses of Gemini (Part 2)
By Andy Cooke Last time, I got up to the marathon trip of Gemini 7 – where Frank Borman and Jim Lovell (who would later be part of the...
- Mar 28, 2020
- 5 min
Alternate History and Pandemics
By Andy Cooke Fiction holds up a mirror to reality. As well as our deep-seated urge to create a narrative structure around the world in...
- Mar 21, 2020
- 6 min
The Launchbox, Pod 13: The Near Misses of Gemini (Part 1)
By Andy Cooke Following the successful completion of the Mercury programme (and NASA managing to sidestep a series of potential...
- Mar 7, 2020
- 8 min
The Launchbox, PoD 11: The Near Misses of Mercury
By Andy Cooke When you’re pushing the limits of human knowledge – and doing so in a race, to boot – you’re going to be raking some risks....
- Feb 22, 2020
- 6 min
Launchbox PoD 9: For Want of a Paperclip
By Andy Cooke The Moon Race was a close-run thing. Oh, not that the Soviets were close to winning. Even before Korolyev died on the...
- Feb 8, 2020
- 8 min
Launchbox PoD 8: Mir anarchy is loosed
By Andy Cooke What Could Have Happened... February 1997 The ageing Mir space station could support three people routinely. At the...
- Jan 25, 2020
- 7 min
Launchbox PoD 7: Losing The Initiative - Sticker Shock kills the Space Exploration Initiative
By Andy Cooke The Space Exploration Initiative On July 20th, 1989, President George H W Bush announced the Space Exploration Initiative....
- Jan 11, 2020
- 8 min
The Launchbox, PoD 6: The Soviet Death Star
By Andy Cooke The Soviets were worried. Ronald Reagan's rhetoric on his "Strategic Defence Initiative" was vivid, although was it...
- Dec 28, 2019
- 11 min
The Launchbox, PoD 5: Christmas Catastrophe - the Disaster of Apollo 8
By Andy Cooke On Christmas Day, 1968, Apollo 8 entered lunar orbit smoothly - the first manned spacecraft to reach the Moon. It was the...
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