Ditch the flag-waving: space is for us all

• Autores: Lisa Grossman
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3084, 2016, pág. 21
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Nationalism has always been a part of space exploration. The US went to the moon"because it was hard", as President Kennedy said--but also because the Russians were orbiting Earth. Every time a NASA craft visits another world, the little American flags come out, NASA administrator Charles Bolden has justified the agency's current efforts to develop crewed craft as a way to "bring space launches back to America." Here, Grossman talks about how human space flight is flexing national muscle.