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1998 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

The Space Age

verfasst von : Helen Gavaghan

Erschienen in: Something New Under the Sun

Verlag: Springer New York

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What does the space age offer, and what might it yet be? Perhaps it is no more than an age in which new tools and weapons expand our knowledge and ability to trade and fight wars. A glorified Stone, Bronze, or Iron Age, during which our usual activities will be different only in that they extend beyond Earth’s atmosphere. Or is the space age essentially different; was the launch of Sputnik Ithe turning point Tsiolkovsky predicted when he wrote of mankind leaving the earth in pursuit of light and space? Not Russians, Chinese, Frenchmen, or Americans, but mankind, building cities together in space, as he advocated in his science fiction book Beyondthe Earth.

Metadaten
Titel
The Space Age
verfasst von
Helen Gavaghan
Copyright-Jahr
1998
Verlag
Springer New York
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1618-6_5

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