Ground Control Quotes

“It was clear from the beginning that this was a utopia that gods were building on the backs of those that would never touch heaven.”
― Savannah Mandel, Ground Control: An Argument for the End of Human Space Exploration

“Sometimes this story is full of love and hope. Sometimes it is full of anger and resentment. This is how I was trained to write as an anthropologist: not to avoid bias but to be up front with it.”
― Savannah Mandel, Ground Control: An Argument for the End of Human Space Exploration

“In other words, I had seen the skeletons hidden in the closet, and now, regretfully, I wished that I had interviewed them instead.”
― Savannah Mandel, Ground Control: An Argument for the End of Human Space Exploration

“But make no-mistake— I want to go to outer space. I want to see humankind construct cities on far-off planets and moons. That doesn’t make it right, though, and it doesn’t mean that now is the time to do so.”
― Savannah Mandel, Ground Control: An Argument for the End of Human Space Exploration

“What if we focused not on the space-faring generation but on every generation? What if Earth became our trillion-dollar project?”
― Savannah Mandel, Ground Control: An Argument for the End of Human Space Exploration