”I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.”
– Neil Armstrong (1930 – 2012) on looking back at the Earth from the Moon in July 1969
Month: March 2014
Companies, News, Virgin Galactic
While Richard Branson‘s Virgin Galactic has been quiet lately, and that 2007 2014 goal seems to become ever more ambitious, don’t let it stop you from enjoying this showreel of their magnificent technology! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Tc_vlQSKpM
News, People, Quotes
“War and space exploration are alternative uses of the assertive, exploratory energies that are so characteristic of human beings. They may also be mutually exclusive because if one occurs on a massive scale, the other probably will not.”
– Frank White, The Overview Effect, 1981