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Andrew Chaikin 2-22-12 Human Spaceflight: A New Paradigm
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Andrew Chaikin 2-22-12
Human Spaceflight: A New Paradigm
It’s all about the Narrative ...
“They’re following our script” -- Wernher von Braun to Ward Kimball,
December 1968
“When you’re making an impossible dream come true, you can’t do business as usual.”
-- Alan Bean
1903
1969
“2001”
“The future ain’t what it used to be.” -- Yogi Berra
Onward and Upward .... ?
1936
“Three ships is a lot of ships. Why can’t you prove the world is round with one ship?”
text
The New Yorker, 1970
A New Narrative
“A butterfly bolted to a bullet”
Popular Science, February 1985
Field of Dreams (a.k.a., The Next Logical Step)
WHAT Gold Rush?
The Dream That Fell to Earth
ISS: Another Engineering Marvel ...
... At What Cost?
“We have been given eyes to see what the light year worlds cannot see of themselves. We have been given hands to touch the miraculous. We have been given hearts to know the incredible. Can we shrink back to bed in our funeral clothes? Mars says we cannot. .... Free of the protection of the solid rock in which we hid to invent fire, now we stand unprotected in an invisible rain that showers from the Universe and will either cleanse us or melt us to nothing.”
-- Ray Bradbury Too Soon from the Cave, Too Far from the Stars
WHY SPACE?
WE MUST CHANGE THE COST SIDE OF THE COST-BENEFIT EQUATION. WHY HASN’T THAT HAPPENED LONG AGO?
THE “SELF-LICKING ICE CREAM CONE”
T+50 Years: It’s STILL a Dream ...
ROUTINE AFFORDABLE
SUSTAINABLE.
“When you’re making an impossible dream come true, you can’t do business as usual.”
-- Alan Bean
