1963: The Space Race
Title: 1963: The Space Race
Writer: Jonathan Morris
Doctor: Colin Baker
Companion(s): Peri
Featuring:
Main Enemy: Laika
Setting: Baikonur
Cosmodrome, 10-23 November 1963
the Moon, 22-23 November 1963
Cover Blurbl
November 1963, and the Soviet space programme reigns supreme. Having sent the first animals, then the first men beyond Earth’s atmosphere, now they’re sending a manned capsule into orbit around the Moon.
Just as Vostok Seven passes over into the dark side, however, its life support system fails. Only the intervention of the Sixth Doctor and Peri, adopting the identities of scientists from Moscow University, means that contact with the capsule is regained.
But something has happened to the cosmonaut on board. She appears to have lost her memory, and developed extreme claustrophobia. Maybe she’s not quite as human as she used to be...
Writer: Jonathan Morris
Doctor: Colin Baker
Companion(s): Peri
Featuring:
Main Enemy: Laika
Setting: Baikonur
Cosmodrome, 10-23 November 1963
the Moon, 22-23 November 1963
Cover Blurbl
November 1963, and the Soviet space programme reigns supreme. Having sent the first animals, then the first men beyond Earth’s atmosphere, now they’re sending a manned capsule into orbit around the Moon.
Just as Vostok Seven passes over into the dark side, however, its life support system fails. Only the intervention of the Sixth Doctor and Peri, adopting the identities of scientists from Moscow University, means that contact with the capsule is regained.
But something has happened to the cosmonaut on board. She appears to have lost her memory, and developed extreme claustrophobia. Maybe she’s not quite as human as she used to be...