Edgar D. Mitchell, Sc.D.

A Look Back at Fifty Years of the Space Age

The noted British astronomer Fred Hoyle predicted shortly after the launch of Sputnik in October, 1957 that when we humans could obtain a picture of Earth from deep space, life here would never be the same. This was a time in history when the average Westerner's concept of the universe was hardly more sophisticated than "God in the heavens, man in the middle and everything else below." That is to say that only a very few scientists had foresight as to the extent and complexity of the cosmos that would be revealed following the arrival of the space age and its modern technologies.

Edgar D. Mitchell, Sc.D., posted on October 29th, 2007
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