“Our Species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and basic understanding of how the world works."
-Sagan
What I thought was great was that scientists have looked to science fiction writers to understand possibilities in space. It is a beautiful relationship with art and the sciences. Where the unknown requires imagination which artist have an abundance of, and the imagination is able to become a reality with the blend of the sciences coming to create. The "final frontier" is still full of so many possibilities and most of them are still distant dreams.
Still a very real but foreign concept to me that war and power drives the world. The race of nations to be the first to have a satellite in space to claim that power where the USSR and America were racing to be the first. And then to see who could be the first to get a living being in space. And worried that Russia would claim part of the Moon which doesn't really mean a lot, but America having to be the first to make it to the moon. Ultimately we have done very little human space travel since we have landed in 1969.
Its amazing what people are able to create. People are so invested in their passions of the unknown that they break all obstacles and limits to meet that goal. People created a one person spaceship funded by independent contractors to be the first single person in space. Something that would never be possible just a short while ago is now possible. The journey of breaking the impossible is what seems so attractive to the exploration of space. Virgin Galatic was the company run by Richard Branson to win the first race to space by a single man'd ship.
Video/Photo Links:
1) https://youtu.be/UICK6CI1hTA
2) http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/star-trek-original-series/images/19173859/title/kirk-space-final-frontier-wallpaper
3) https://drawception.com/viewgame/sEOWxHkHdb/the-space-race/
Works Cited:
-Sagan
What I thought was great was that scientists have looked to science fiction writers to understand possibilities in space. It is a beautiful relationship with art and the sciences. Where the unknown requires imagination which artist have an abundance of, and the imagination is able to become a reality with the blend of the sciences coming to create. The "final frontier" is still full of so many possibilities and most of them are still distant dreams.
Still a very real but foreign concept to me that war and power drives the world. The race of nations to be the first to have a satellite in space to claim that power where the USSR and America were racing to be the first. And then to see who could be the first to get a living being in space. And worried that Russia would claim part of the Moon which doesn't really mean a lot, but America having to be the first to make it to the moon. Ultimately we have done very little human space travel since we have landed in 1969.
Its amazing what people are able to create. People are so invested in their passions of the unknown that they break all obstacles and limits to meet that goal. People created a one person spaceship funded by independent contractors to be the first single person in space. Something that would never be possible just a short while ago is now possible. The journey of breaking the impossible is what seems so attractive to the exploration of space. Virgin Galatic was the company run by Richard Branson to win the first race to space by a single man'd ship.
Video/Photo Links:
1) https://youtu.be/UICK6CI1hTA
2) http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/star-trek-original-series/images/19173859/title/kirk-space-final-frontier-wallpaper
3) https://drawception.com/viewgame/sEOWxHkHdb/the-space-race/
Works Cited:
1) Vesna , Victoria, dir. Space Part 1-5. 2012. Film. 30 May 2015.
2) Franklin, H. Bruce. “Science Fiction: The Early History.” Andromeda. Web. http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~hbf/sfhist.html
3)Hull, Dana, and Julie Johnsson. "Galactic Gold Rush: Private Spending on Space Is Headed for a New Record." Bloomberg.com. Bloomberg, 5 Feb. 2015. Web. 26 May 2015. <http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-05/galactic-gold-rush-private-spending-on-space-is-headed-for-a-new-record>.
4)Lin, Kemy. "The 1969 Lunar Landing: One Giant Leap for Art." Hyperallergic. Hyperallergic Media, Inc., 27 May 2015. Web. 31 May 2015. <http://hyperallergic.com/204172/the-1969-lunar-landing-one-giant-leap-for-art/>
5)Sagan, Carl. "A Pale Blue Dot." Youtube. N.p., n.d. Web.
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