When I was a boy in the 1960s, I thought America was the greatest country in the world: US president John F Kennedy, Muhammad Ali, Neil Armstrong, Geronimo, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Lucille Ball, ...

Long before Neil Armstrong set foot on the Moon, artists and writers were crafting visions of extraterrestrial exploration that would make space flight possible. For centuries, the dream of human ...