Brian Harvey is a writer and broadcaster on spaceflight. His first book was Race into space - the Soviet space programme (Ellis Horwood, 1988), followed by further publications on the Russian, Chinese, European, Indian and Japanese space programmes. He is author of China in space - the great leap (2nd, edition, Springer-Praxis, 2019), published in Chinese this year. In the course of the research, he met China’s first space man, Yang Liwei and first space woman, Liu Yang. His other books and chapters have been translated into Russian, Chinese and Korean. His most recent book is European-Russian cooperation in space - from de Gaulle to ExoMars (www.springer.com).