It was born after Rod's efforts to arrange publication of "The Phoenix Mission", a story he had written, and persuaded an original Dan Dare artist Keith Watson to illustrate in pastiche style.
Following Watson's death, "The Phoenix Mission" was taken over from the second issue onwards by the legendary original Dan Dare artist Don Harley (who had often shared credit with Hampson himself in the 1950s).
Currently, Spaceship Away now includes "other sci-fi like Charles Chilton's Journey into Space, and Sydney Jordan's 'Hal Starr'",[2] and (as of July 2024) is still a going concern.
Keith Page writes and draws "Rocket Pilot" which is set just before Dan's first trip to Venus in 1994, prior to the "Kingfisher" expedition.
It also features new Dan Dare text stories by Denis Steeper set in the period immediately after the Eagle's original strips.