The Overview Effect

The overview effect is a cognitive shift in awareness reported by some astronauts during spaceflight, often while…

Writing Human History

I know you went your way I promised that I’d stay Part…

Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies

It is man’s intelligence that makes him so often behave more stupidly…

Work

“I do not particularly like the word ‘work.’ Human beings are the…

Carrying the Fire

  “I think a future flight should include a poet, a priest…

“Space is going to be commonplace”

“Sometimes when things get kind of frantic, it helps to call my…

The Goddess Within

“We did what we thought was right every single moment. Sometimes we were…

Star Maker

All this long human story, most passionate and tragic in the living,…

A miracle on Mars

A blade of grass is a commonplace on Earth; it would be…