Brian Harvey is the author of ‘The New Russian space programme’, ‘Russia in space - the Failed Frontier?’ (2001), ‘Two Roads into Space - the Japanese and Indian Space Programmes’ (1998), ‘The Chinese space Programme - from Conception to Future Capabilities’ (1997), ‘China's Space Program’ (2004), ‘Europe’s Space Programme’ (2003), ‘Two Roads to the Moon’ (with Dave Shayler)(forthcoming), ‘Russian Planetary Exploration’ (forthcoming), all Praxis titles. He is also a writer of articles on spaceflight for Astronomy Now, Orbit, Spaceflight, Journal of the British Interplanetary Society (JBIS), Space Chronicle, Astronomy & Space, Sunday Press, Quest, Irish Independent. Broadcaster for RTE, BBC (Radio 4, World Service), Canadian Broadcasting. Brian Harvey is therefore ideally suited as the editor of Latest in Space - 2007.