Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | International Space Station | Space Shuttle | European Space Agency | Kennedy Space Center | The Amazing Race | Relay race | National Air and Space Museum | Space Shuttle Challenger | Hubble Space Telescope | Marshall Space Flight Center | Lost in Space | Graded stakes race | Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center | 2001: A Space Odyssey | Goddard Space Flight Center | Three-dimensional space | Space Invaders | 2001: A Space Odyssey (film) | Pimlico Race Course | Space: 1999 | Caucasian race | Space Shuttle Columbia | Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race | Symphony Space | Death Race 2000 | space | Euclidean space | Volvo Ocean Race | The Amazing Race (U.S. TV series) |
Like this, the series reads as a chronology of military aviation as well as the events that were catching people's imagination at the time of publishing, ranging from the Korean war, the cold war, UFO's international terrorism and drug running, the space race, rogue atomic bombs, the collapse of the Soviet bloc and recently the conflicts in Sarajevo and Afghanistan.
Moon McDare was an A. C. Gilbert Company toy line featuring a fictional male astronaut, released in response to the then current interest in outer space and the US/Soviet Space Race.
In the Vatican, the election and coronation of Pope Paul VI; in the Soviet Union, the launch of a Soviet rocket as part of the Space Race with the United States; in South Vietnam, fighting between Communists and South Vietnamese soldiers; in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States, the racial integration of the University of Alabama opposed by Governor George Wallace; and in Berlin, President John F. Kennedy's visit to Germany and Rudolph Wilde Platz.
The early stories and the first book in the series were published in the wake of the impact of Sputnik and the space race and reflect the thinking of that period (the first book even includes a plug for joining the United States Air Force in the last story, "Night Rescue").