From the oceans, from the stars. Arthur C. Clarke Space flight has very little in common with aviation; it is much closer in spirit to ocean voyaging – Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible, Harper and Row, New York, 1963. The current drift of America’s civil space program has many reaching to discuss the philosophy and methods we rely on to pursue space travel. Of late, the quote above (which I first read in high school in the late Sixties during my Arthur C. Clarke omnivorous reading campaign) has been tapping me on the shoulder. Clarke’s capti [...]
