Abstract
What does the space age offer, and what might it yet be? Perhaps it is no more than an age in which new tools and weapons expand our knowledge and ability to trade and fight wars. A glorified Stone, Bronze, or Iron Age, during which our usual activities will be different only in that they extend beyond Earth’s atmosphere. Or is the space age essentially different; was the launch of Sputnik Ithe turning point Tsiolkovsky predicted when he wrote of mankind leaving the earth in pursuit of light and space? Not Russians, Chinese, Frenchmen, or Americans, but mankind, building cities together in space, as he advocated in his science fiction book Beyond the Earth.
All of us living beings belong together.
—Erwin Schrödinger
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Gavaghan, H. (1998). The Space Age. In: Something New Under the Sun. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1618-6_5
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