If you look at the way rocketeering and space exploration is treated these days book-wise and in our culture, most people know next to nothing about the Space Age (myself included until I started this project). I’ve always thought it amazing that bookstores don’t even have a section on space travel. Wars, all kinds of wars, yes. In my eyes what Gilruth, von Braun, Parsons, NASA, Korolev et al did during the first Space Age is arguably the most important single period of modern history. And as a species we owe it to ourselves to honor them—and to move forward.
Published on May 19, 2017 16:42