Detail Star Truck: Private Space Flight   Oleh:  [s.n] Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 403 no. 8783 (May 2012), page 14. Topik: Space Exploration; Spacecraft; Politics; Planning Ketersediaan Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE29.71 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada     Lihat Detail Induk Isi artikel Space flight defies mere reason. From its beginning in the 1950s until the present day, it has teetered along the line that divides science from science fiction. The rocketeers who took America into orbit were, many of them, space cadets drawn to the field by the shiny spaceships and bug-eyed monsters of the pulp fiction of their boyhoods--and the same was probably true of their Soviet counterparts. What they produced, too, was only quasi-real. The Apollo programme, to land a man on the Moon and return him safely to Earth, in the words of John Kennedy, America's president at the time, was a deadly serious engineering and diplomatic project. It aimed to show the world that American know-how was better than the Russian variety. But it was also an idealized fantasy of American power. ("We came in peace, for all mankind.") The flag Neil Armstrong planted in the Sea of Tranquility staked a claim to what many hoped would be a new frontier. In the case of Apollo, reality--in the form of government budget cuts--triumphed over the plans for a permanent moon base. But 40 years later the tension between fantasy and reality in space remains, as two new projects show. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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