By: Duncan Lunan

Duncan Lunan — Sat, 20 Jul 2019 22:35:22 +0000

My letter to the Daily Express pointing out Sydney Jordan’s close prediction of the Moon landing date was edited by the paper to introduce his explanation of how it came about. Although it wasn’t credited or paid for, it was in fact my first professional publication, and led on to my friendship and collaboration with Sydney to this day.

I’ve told the story in my new book “From the Moon to the Stars”, a collection of my space travel stories old and new, published by Other Side Books for the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing. Sydney has kindly allowed me to select 15 images from his vast canon of work, each relevant to one of the stories, to appear with them in the book.

“From the Moon to the Stars” will be launched at the meeting on Thursday July 25th of the Astronomers of the Future Club, at the RSAS Barassie Works Club, 4 Shore Road, Troon, Ayrshire KA10 6AG, from 7.15 to 9 p.m. – all welcome. The book will be available at a special pre-publication price of £10 on the night, and thereafter can be obtained from the publishers at £12.99 through https://othersidebooks.wordpress.com, as well as on Amazon or through booksellers; details of that and other books illustrated by Sydney are on my website, http://www.duncanlunan.com.

Comments on: Remembering the first moon landing

By: Duncan Lunan