Most of our history in space has been communicated in terms of action - what people do, a chronological list of events which have transpired - as opposed to the human experience of having done those things.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Especially when I first really started to work with Kenneth and Franklin, who had been in space already. And so, they were able to talk about space and tell me a few things about how things would really happen.
History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.
To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.
We write about things that we've done or things that have happened to people around us.
I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies.
A feeling for history is almost an essential for writing and appreciating good science fiction, for sensing the connections between the past and future that run through our present.
Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.
How we think about the future and the past determines everything about how we think about our situation as human beings.
Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come.
Time plays an important role. My physical body is taking shape in space, and I see that my ideas about how we influence space with our movement is really 'matter of fact.'