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Time to catch up on space again, and where better to begin than Marina Benjamin’s Rocket Dreams (Vintage/Free Press, £7.99/$14)? A trip down the space coast of Florida frames her brilliant history of our fascination with space. She links outer and inner space, public and private space, and makes the Apollo programme midwife to cyberspace. She approves of the insight of philosopher Gaston Bachelard that there is “correspondence between external immensity and inner intensity”, which explains how nourishing space dreams can be for all of us. Full of surprises: Al Gore’s Triana project – a satellite sitting at a Lagrange point – would have provided great…