First Man by James R. Hansen

Author:James R. Hansen [Hansen, James R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: General, Biography & Autobiography, United States, History, Biography, Military, Creative Ability, Modern, 20th Century, Psychology, Technology & Engineering, cookie429, Extratorrents, Kat, Space Flight to the Moon, Astronauts, Astronautics, Science & Technology, Aeronautics & Astronautics
ISBN: 9780743256315
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2005-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

On the one hand to dwell in the very center of technological reality…yet to inhabit—if only in one’s dreams—that other world where death, metaphysics and the unanswerable questions of eternity must reside, was to suggest natures so divided that they could have been the most miserable and unbalanced of men if they did not contain in their huge contradictions some of the profound and accelerating opposites of the country itself. The century would seek to dominate nature as it had never been dominated, would attack the idea of war, poverty and natural catastrophe as never before. The century would create death, devastation and pollution as never before. Yet the century was now attached to the idea that man must take his conception of life out to the stars.

So, in turn, the astronauts had personalities of unequaled banality and apocalyptic dignity. So they suggested in their contradictions the power of the century to live with its own incredible contradictions and yet release some of the untold energies of the earth. A century devoted to the rationality of technique was also a century so irrational as to open in every mind the real possibility of global destruction. It was the first century in history whichpresented to sane and sober minds the end of its span. It was a world half convinced of the future death of our species yet half aroused by the apocalyptic notion that an exceptional future still lay before us. So it was a century which moved with the most magnificent display of power into directions it could not comprehend. The itch was to accelerate—the metaphysical direction unknown.

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