Alba ad Astra - Scotland's forgotten history of space exploration

Introductions by Ken MacLeod and Pippa GoldschmidtThe first human being in space was Russian. The first man on the Moon was American. However the space race is a marathon not a sprint. Startling evidence suggests that the longest rocket flight ever made was a classified Scottish project.Alba ad Astra is a collaborative thought experiment celebrating Scotlands industrial and technological heritage. Documents photographs and testimonials have been collected by Madeleine Shepherd and contributors such as Andrew J. Wilson and Kirsti Wishart. These fragments reveal a secret part of Scotlands history - or a new mythology.Contributors: Ken MacLeod Andrew J. Wilson Pippa Goldschmidt Gavin Inglis Kirsti Wishart Andrew C. Ferguson and Fergus Currie