Or, to quote myself, writing a couple of years back, after Columbia...
As dreamingcrow said, "Space is a place that a lot of us dream about." That is true for me, and for many others. It is also much more than that, for me, it is a hope for humanity. The same hope that led our ancestors to hollow out a log, get into it and see what lies over the water, to wrap furs around themselves and see what lies beyond that mountain. This is the hope that drives us to explore the unknown and to grow in that exploration.
The ancients looked at the stars and planets and wondered. They built great structures to measure and track their positions. This has been happening for thousands of years, and yet, we have only been exploring space for less than fifty years. All of manned exploration has taken place in my lifetime. We have fitted outriggers and an elementary sail to our hollowed out log, but we have a long way to go still. And we will.
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Date: 2009-08-16 11:48 pm (UTC)Or, to quote myself, writing a couple of years back, after Columbia...
As dreamingcrow said, "Space is a place that a lot of us dream about." That is true for me, and for many others. It is also much more than that, for me, it is a hope for humanity. The same hope that led our ancestors to hollow out a log, get into it and see what lies over the water, to wrap furs around themselves and see what lies beyond that mountain. This is the hope that drives us to explore the unknown and to grow in that exploration.
The ancients looked at the stars and planets and wondered. They built great structures to measure and track their positions. This has been happening for thousands of years, and yet, we have only been exploring space for less than fifty years. All of manned exploration has taken place in my lifetime. We have fitted outriggers and an elementary sail to our hollowed out log, but we have a long way to go still. And we will.