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4 de mai. de 2000 · Historian Wyn Wachhorst captures the essence of our birth as an interstellar species in The Dream of Spaceflight, a collection of five essays spanning 500 years of scientific and technological achievement.
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One of few truly gifted essayists who have turned their talents to science, Wyn Wachhorst here fashions a luminous meditation on the meaning of space exploration from a montage of images and...
10 de jul. de 2005 · The Dream of Spaceflight: Essays On The Near Edge Of Infinity In the tradition of Loren Eiseley, Arthur Koestler, and Lewis Thomas, Wynn Wachhorst is a great rarity: an author of truly lyrical essays on science and technology.
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4 de mai. de 2000 · The opening essay, a survey of major figures from Johannes Kepler to Werner von Braun, sees in the rise of spaceflight a metaphor of modern history as a recurrent story of transformation and rebirth. The second essay recalls the romantic vision of the decades prior to Sputnik, and sets our own nostalgia for those days against that ...
1 de jan. de 2001 · Article. The Dream of Spaceflight: Essays on the Near Edge of Infinity (review) January 2001. Technology and Culture 42 (4):815-817. DOI: 10.1353/tech.2001.0177. Authors:...
