by Francis Spufford (Author)
Britain is the only country in the world to have cancelled its space programme just as it put its first rocket into orbit. Starting with this forgotten episode, this text tells the bitter-sweet story of how one country lost its industrial tradition and got something back. Sad, inspiring, funny and ultimately triumphant, it follows the technologists whose work kept Concorde flying, created the computer game, conquered the mobile-phone business, saved the human genome for the human race and who are now sending the Beagle 2 probe to burrow the cinnamon sands of Mars.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Edition: Second Impression
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 06 Nov 2003
ISBN 10: 0571214967
ISBN 13: 9780571214969