The year is 1986; on any university campus in Australia, it is impossible to buy a decent cup of coffee. There are no coffee carts; the only coffee available is instant, from a giant tin of Nescafe at an on-campus co-op. At the University of Melbourne, the union building is bare of any hipster espresso coffee stores - the kind that now dot most university campuses. Instead, apart from the co-op, there are no shops…
In 1946 a seized German V-2 missile was mounted on the side of a rocket and launched into space from the brown sands of New Mexico. The mission of this launch, on the cusp of the Cold War, had no malicious intention. The rocket was loaded not with explosives but with a small automatic camera the sole purpose of which was to photograph images of Earth from outer space. High above the beloved American South…
