It was a time when the Eagle comic's Dan Dare Pilot of the Future - RAF fantasia relocated in outer space - fuelled those New Elizabethan dreams of sound barriers, supersonic flight, new empires and interplanetary travel.
Space exploration fuelled an explosion of stories during the postwar years in comics such as Dan Dare and Tintin's Destination Moon, and in TV programmes and films such as Doctor Who, Star Trek and Star Wars.
The manned space program, fuelled by superpower pride and competition, was a human indulgence, and, insofar as it continues to exist, should be sold to us not for its supposed "spin-offs" and indirect benefits, and not for its scientific yields (machines do, in fact, do the science better), but for its feel-good hubris and its conquering heroism.
He has described a marvellous world that could be — space colonies and abundance fuelled by biotech, cheap energy, and brilliant robots — and then explained why our risk-averse culture and stifling, confiscatory government prevent us from achieving what should be ours.
We spoke to the founders of Category Is Books about being one of just two LGBTQ+ bookshops in the UK, and the importance of queer spaces that aren't fuelled by alcohol.
When the Ariane space rocket lifts off, it is fuelled not just by hydrocarbons and liquid oxygen but by the brainpower that goes into numerous calculations, computer simulations, and test flights.
These two ideals are currently causing conflict on campuses, fuelled by concepts such as "safe space" and "no platforming" - used by students with a view to gathering and having discussions without views or opinions that are deemed offensive or threatening.
This in turn fuelled Irvin's intense investigation of layered space and variation in colour across his output.
Fears over the high street have been fuelled after it emerged that demand for space was falling even before the collapse of three major players.
Space travel is back in people's hearts and minds – fuelled by recent Hollywood blockbusters such as The Martian and this exciting next pioneering step into the unknown.
A soil-based cropping unit fuelled with human urine for long-term manned space missions was investigated with the aim to analyze whether a closed-loop nutrient cycle from human liquid wastes was achievable.
