Ray bradbury r is for rocket6/12/2023 Some of the stories are about the delightful and terrifying pull of space travel.So, back to Ray Bradbury – writing science fiction in the 1950s – when manned landings were still an unrealised dream. But it was the Americans who set the first human on the moon when, in 1969, when Neil Armstrong stepped off the ladder of the Eagle and placed his foot in the dust of the Sea of Tranquillity. During the 1960s, the American efforts to reach the moon were stepped up and by the second half of the decade, successful soft-landings on the moon were being achieved by both nations. In 1959, after multiple failures, the Russians managed to achieve a crash-landing of an unmanned craft on the lunar surface. So, it is fitting that the next book in my ‘have read recently’ pile is Ray Bradbury’s collection of short stories about space flight.īradbury wrote most of these stories during the 1950s, the decade when the Russian Sputnik programme began. Today I heard the news: Neil Armstrong, the first man-on-the-moon, died yesterday.
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