With 12 articles, a video and a podcast devoted to space exploration, this week's Science Times has something for everyone: science, pop culture, a recording of Sputnik's beeping, wishing billionaires would make prizes for human Mars exploration, an interview with Khrushchev's son, a story on Voyager, an essay on baby steps taken since Apollo, the race with China (as Borland covers here), space artifacts near you, and the impact Sputnik had on the classroom. It's all the space reading an armchair explorer could want.
I guess you can get a lot of attention when it's your 50th birthday. (Happy Birthday Space Age!)
'Baby steps' author Overbye concludes his essay, "I will always be glad I was alive when he took that small step, even if we are still waiting for the next big leap." For me I will alway be glad that I was not born for that first small step as the juice of my life is causing the next giant leap for humankind. It's good when everyone is where they want to be!
Science Times: The Space Age [New York Times]
