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Lost in Space: The Fall of NASA and the Dream of a New Space Age Greg Clerkx Secker & Warburg, (pounds) 16.99 The maxim about not judging a book by its cover certainly applies to Clerkx's first work.

LOST IN SPACE: The Fall of Nasa and the Dream of a New Space Age by Greg Klerkx (Secker, Pounds 18.99) SPACE is a hot topic at the moment. In the past two months we have had two orbiters and three landers racing to Mars.

When I was a boy, I wanted to be an astronaut. It was an uncomplicated aspiration. I would ride the rocket and wear the spacesuit. I would gaze out through the fishbowl helmet into a star- flecked black ocean as the Earth spun blue-and-white below me. I would discover things. I would be a hero.

Scifi.com -- S.S. Wilson, co-writer of the tentatively titled Lost in Space: The Journey Home, told SCI FI Wire that the proposed Lost in Space television reunion movie and backdoor pilot might still come together, despite the death last November of original series star Jonathan Harris.