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Cover of book,map of moon, with notes by the artist detailling objects that remain on the moon
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Lost in Space is published as part of Book Works' Chap Book Series (No. 4), printed offset in an edition of 1,000 copies, 2 colours, 40 pages with a soft cover. Designed by valle walkley, 134 x 210 mm.


 Lost in Space
by Andrew Dodds (2006)

"And so, the moon returns nightly to haunt us like some 'Marie Celestis', carrying the ghosts of our dreams and aspirations" — from the Introduction

The moment of the first lunar landing, 20 July 1969, has become a monument — the documents, images and recordings now accessible to millions. But the actual site — the scene of the event, the footprints, abandoned objects, the Landing Module — remains preserved for millennia, vacuum packed in non-existent atmosphere.

J.G. Ballard described Project Apollo as "the last great act undertaken by the United States out of a sense of optimism." In Lost in Space Andrew Dodds draws on information from NASA archives, correspondence with specialists in the field and personally gathered ephemera, to find the objects abandoned at Tranquillity Base; objects invested with dreams and aspirations, now succumbed to obsolescence.

ISBN 978 1 870699 76 1—Price £6.50

double page spread of interior show two astronauts in studio filming reenactment of lunar landing and a list of 28 artifacts left behind on the moon at Tranquillity base
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Lost in Space
by Andrew Dodds (2006)

"And so, the moon returns nightly to haunt us like some 'Marie Celestis', carrying the ghosts of our dreams and aspirations" — from the Introduction

The moment of the first lunar landing, 20 July 1969, has become a monument — the documents, images and recordings now accessible to millions. But the actual site — the scene of the event, the footprints, abandoned objects, the Landing Module — remains preserved for millennia, vacuum packed in non-existent atmosphere.

J.G. Ballard described Project Apollo as "the last great act undertaken by the United States out of a sense of optimism." In Lost in Space Andrew Dodds draws on information from NASA archives, correspondence with specialists in the field and personally gathered ephemera, to find the objects abandoned at Tranquillity Base; objects invested with dreams and aspirations, now succumbed to obsolescence.

ISBN 978 1 870699 76 1—Price £6.50