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Into Space – Introduction
It has been thirty years since the first satellite went into orbit and the new Age of Space began. I have seen marvelous feats during this time, and all of us have learned more about the Solar system than we had earlier dreamed it might be possible to know.
I shall never go out into space. I am too old. Young people, however, will live to see further wonders we can scarcely imagine now. The Space Age is for them. Many of them may go out into space someday, and their children may in time go more frequently and farther. And finally, someday, anyone who has the time and the desire and the money to buy tickets into can goI shall never go out into space. I am too old. Young people, however, will live to see further wonders we can scarcely imagine now. The Space Age is for them. Many of them may go out into space someday, and their children may in time go more frequently and farther. And finally, someday, anyone who has the time and the desire and the money to buy tickets into can go space and see other worlds.
But for now and for some time in the near future, this still remains a dream. However, there is such a thing as imagination. If we can’t buy a ticket today to tour the Universe, we can at least imagine that we can do so. For that, though, we need a guide someone who knows what such a journey might be like and what we might see.
Our guide is Mr. Stuart Atkinson, an astronomer and writer, and he will take us on a grand tour from Earth to every planet in the Solar system, to the important satellites, to asteroids and comets. Finally, he will take us to Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to our Sun, to look out to the vast Universe beyond. He does it all in very little time, far less time than it would actually take us in a real spaceship, but that is the advantage of imagination. It does enable us to move more quickly – with the speed of thought, in fact. And remember, too, that all that is described and shown you is what we know today, what we have learned of space, and what we are planning for space colonization and exploration. By the time you have reached my age, you will know a great deal more and, perhaps, some of you may have contributed to that additional knowledge.
So let’s not wait any longer. Let’s take off.
