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HAPPY BIRTHDAY HUBBLE
The history of NASA’s iconic telescope and its four celebrated servicing missions
Mike Bryce

A SHOT IN THE DARK
The political significance of Chang’e 4 landing in the Von Kármán Crater
Philip Mills

LITTLE BIG SHIP
The story of the US Navy’s ocean-going spacecraft hunter
Dwayne A. Day

BRIEF ENCOUNTERS
Secrets of the Soviet Union’s and Russia’s nuclear space programmes
Vadim Zakirov, Alan Perera-Webb, Gerald Maurice Webb and Constantine
Milyaev

ONCE IN A BLUE MOON?
A review of the Japanese lunar programme in 2019
Brian Harvey

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