Skip to content Skip to sidebar Skip to footer

[DOWNLOAD] "Beyond Columbia: Is There a Future for Humanity in Space?" by The Humanist # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free

Beyond Columbia: Is There a Future for Humanity in Space?

📘 Read Now     📥 Download


eBook details

  • Title: Beyond Columbia: Is There a Future for Humanity in Space?
  • Author : The Humanist
  • Release Date : January 01, 2003
  • Genre: Reference,Books,
  • Pages : * pages
  • Size : 322 KB

Description

On the first day of February 2003, the space shuttle Columbia started its return to Earth at the end of a sixteen-day mission. While the mission had apparently performed "without a hitch," the shuttle suffered a series of failures in the last minutes of reentry, followed by a cutoff of communications with Mission Control around 10:00 AM (CST). Forty miles above Texas, the shuttle exploded and killed its crew of seven astronauts almost seventeen years to the day after the Challenger disaster, an incident high in the minds of those looking on. In the wake of the Columbia crash, observers asked whether human space flight was worth the risk. While this wasn't a surprising opinion in light of the tragedy, the weakness of the voices replying in the affirmative did. It wasn't only the experience of watching the tragedy unfold on television that left those voices so weak. The truth was that in the eyes of pundits and the public alike, human space travel had become a luxury, a stunt, a boondoggle rather than a legitimate field of endeavor, let alone the door to the future.


Free PDF Download "Beyond Columbia: Is There a Future for Humanity in Space?" Online ePub Kindle