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"There have, of course, since that time been multiple other attempts at space exploration and at pushing the American empire's boundaries in skirmishes across the globe, but many have failed and none have extended the frontier farther than Neil Armstrong did. (Alternatively, one could argue that the door to the Frontier was finally slammed shut with the January 28, 1986, explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger that killed all seven astronauts on board.) Somewhere in the last few decades, American forward movement has gotten stuck." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"NASA's space exploration budget. A 2001 initiative only called for policymakers to streamline and accelerate approval of more and more ineffective drugs. Meanwhile, effective cancer prevention programs are almost nonexistent. Organizations intended to fight cancer also deserve some criticism. For the most part, donations to cancer treatment groups only fill the bank accounts of probably what are the wealthiest of disease clubs. It has been said there are so many people employed in the cancer industry that a bona fide cure would produce an unacceptable amount of unemployment." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.)

"The decline of the dinos shows that we live in a dangerous solar system, but unlike the dinosaurs, we can see trouble coming and, perhaps, avert it—if we're wise enough to look, jc ¦¦1 RESOURCE Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization by Robert Zubrin (Jeremy R Tarcher/Putnam, 1999) Entering Space is engineer-visionary Robert Zubrin's manifesto for a new age of space exploration. "This is a book about creating a spacefaring civilizationthe next step in the development of human society." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "Space Elevator ¦¦¦¦¦ Quite possibly the wildest idea for promoting space exploration is the Earth-to-orbit elevator. This is one of those notions that, at first blush, sounds almost too ludicrous to be real. After all, we're accustomed to thinking of rockets as our only way into space —mixing danger and adventure. Taking an elevator into space sounds almost boring. It turns out, however, that a space elevator is not only plausible, it's potentially revolutionary." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "But the biggest prize—and the greatest challenge—of space exploration would be to send satellites or even landers to other planets in our solar system. We may first have to build an elevator to reduce the energy costs of getting to high orbit (and, potentially, to serve as a launch "slingshot"). Even without interplanetary satellites, our understanding of how planets function may be on the verge of a revolution. Mars will undoubtedly get the most attention, given the intriguing evidence concerning life there." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "White, a pioneer of space exploration, takes an "orbital stroll" outside of his spacecraft in zero gravity. Author Robert Zimmerman referred to this emerging era as a "space renaissance"—a revolution in the way people on earth see and use space resources. The following are some tools that may help create that renaissance: Microsatellites: Sending things into space will always be easier, and cheaper, than sending people into space." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Now that space exploration and the Internet have become realities, science fiction is crossing over into the mainstream and converging with fantasy. Today's realism can look a lot like yesterday's science fiction, and hard scientific speculation no longer defines the genre as it blurs into fantasy The American Ray Bradbury (b. 1920) has ceased to be regarded as a niche author, for example, even though his most famous novel, Fahrenheit451 (1953), first appeared in the science fiction magazine Galaxy and he wrote extensively for the fantasy pulp Weird Tales. The American Ursula K. LeGuin (b." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.)

"I instead had chosen the path of space by reading everything I could get ahold of in space exploration concepts, from Werner von Braun's visions in Collier's magazine to Arthur C. Clarke's writings about space satellites. Nearly everybody thought I was crazy to harbor such futuristic ideas, because there was no space exploration program then. Of course, I turned out to be vindicated on that one. What if my career path were instead to have been an ecological one? It certainly is now as I move into my sixties, a late career shift." - Brian O'Leary, Reinheriting the Earth: Awakening to Sustainable Solutions and Greater Truths (Get the book.)

"The Search for Spock Anecdotes like these from the annals of space exploration convey the intensity of the physical, mental, and emotional stress that await us on the journey to the final frontier. The ideal astronaut would be mentally alert at all times and completely unaffected by stress or emotion—in other words, Mr. Spock. But alas, we humans are not as unflappable as the Vulcans of Star Trek." - Richard P. Brown, M.D., and Patricia L. Gerbarg, M.D., The Rhodiola Revolution: Transform Your Health with the Herbal Breakthrough of the 21st Century (Get the book.) "Although the stresses of space exploration are more extreme than the stresses of our earthbound existence, they have many similarities and therefore can provide valuable insights into the physical and psychological implications of stress. Many of the physical changes that occur in space, such as loss of bone density and muscle mass as well as declines in the neuroendocrine system, are similar to those that occur with aging. If adaptogen formulas containing Rhodiola rosea are powerful enough to help astronauts overcome stress, imagine what they could do for you." - Richard P. Brown, M.D., and Patricia L. Gerbarg, M.D., The Rhodiola Revolution: Transform Your Health with the Herbal Breakthrough of the 21st Century (Get the book.) "Research on Rhodiola rosea and other medicinal herbs was part of the Soviet Union's great push to compete with the West in military development, the arms race, space exploration, Olympic sports, science, medicine, and industry. During World War II, the Soviet government drafted scientists to work on projects for the military, with a focus on physical and mental performance. The Soviets were determined to find substances that would help their soldiers overcome combat fatigue and win on the battlefield." - Richard P. Brown, M.D., and Patricia L. Gerbarg, M.D., The Rhodiola Revolution: Transform Your Health with the Herbal Breakthrough of the 21st Century (Get the book.) "We don't know for sure, but we suspect that in the former Soviet Union—where the government controlled all the scientific research—the priority was to improve physical and mental performance, especially in competitive fields such as science, space exploration, and military development. Mental illness simply wasn't on the radar screen. So despite the very promising results of early studies, scientists didn't pursue this aspect of research until after the collapse of the communist regime." - Richard P. Brown, M.D., and Patricia L. Gerbarg, M.D., The Rhodiola Revolution: Transform Your Health with the Herbal Breakthrough of the 21st Century (Get the book.)

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