Not long ago the world witnessed the drama of a crippled American space-craft being nursed back to earth. Supposing it had landed on another planet at the same stage of development as the earth was 50,000 years ago, what would the astronauts have taught the inhabitants? What remnants of their efforts to return to earth would they have left behind? How would the inhabitants remember them in myths and in art? The answer we would give fit exactly the vast number of unexplained mysteries which have been found all round the of the God? Return to the stars is another fascinating examination of a part of our history which has been, until now, neglected.