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[if you’re new to the Journey, read this to see what we’re all about!]
by Gideon Marcus
Sometimes, the future comes so fast, it bewilders.
This rushing feeling I've had all month must be similar to what my grandparents felt when the Wright Brothers first took off. For millennia, people have dreamed of flight, envying the birds. Yet flying was always the province of make-believe, of fanciful stories. Then, on one day in 1903, airplanes became a reality, and the world was transformed.
Ditto space travel. That dream has been alive since the Ancient Greeks, yet it was entirely a theoretical concern until the Soviets pierced the heavens with their first beeping Sputnik. It is easy to forget, now that there have been well over one hundred successful orbital missions, that just five years ago, there had been none.
The advances made just this month are tremendous, each one as significant as the breakthroughs I've just detailed. Let's review:
(see the rest at Galactic Journey!)
by Gideon Marcus
Sometimes, the future comes so fast, it bewilders.
This rushing feeling I've had all month must be similar to what my grandparents felt when the Wright Brothers first took off. For millennia, people have dreamed of flight, envying the birds. Yet flying was always the province of make-believe, of fanciful stories. Then, on one day in 1903, airplanes became a reality, and the world was transformed.
Ditto space travel. That dream has been alive since the Ancient Greeks, yet it was entirely a theoretical concern until the Soviets pierced the heavens with their first beeping Sputnik. It is easy to forget, now that there have been well over one hundred successful orbital missions, that just five years ago, there had been none.
The advances made just this month are tremendous, each one as significant as the breakthroughs I've just detailed. Let's review:
(see the rest at Galactic Journey!)
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