Daily Mail

Daring to follow spaceman Dan’s lead

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SOME adventures of Colonel Dan Dare, of the Interplane­t Space Fleet, can be heard on BBC Radio 4 Extra, which is great news for fans of the character from Eagle comic, in which he appeared from 1950 to 1967. Reading Dan Dare, created by Frank Hampson, was a weekly highlight for thousands of children. He was largely responsibl­e for our interest in space travel and the possibilit­y of meeting other life forms.

Back then, the closest thing to a British spacecraft was the supersonic Anglo-French airliner Concorde. But with the launch of Nasa’s Artemis 1 rocket last week, in which Britain has a role through its membership of the European Space Agency, it is clear that the era of space exploratio­n is thriving. Dan Dare would approve.

JOHN S. RICHARDSON,

Dalgety Bay, Fife.

 ?? ?? Out of this world: Dan Dare stars in The Eagle in 1951
Out of this world: Dan Dare stars in The Eagle in 1951

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