Location
Radisson Resort at the Port, Convention Center, Salon I
Start Date
29-4-1999 1:00 PM
Description
For the last millennium civilizations have built temples and structures that looked to the sky and lined up with the stars at special times of the year. Before light pollution, mankind saw the night sky clearly and pondered daily his place in the heavens. True access to space has taken place in the last one hundred years and started with Russia's Konstantin Edvardovich Tsiolkovsky's first writings about staged rockets to escape Earth's gravity and with Robert Goddard's humble beginnings. The first rocket to escape Earth's atmosphere was launched by Wernher von Braun' team October 3rd 1942 from Peenemunde Germany. Mankind has made tremendous advances with these space endeavors. These advances are gained from knowledge of ourselves, our universe, and the natural laws of physics, which allows for our great technical achievements. The laws of physics will always remain the same. It's mankind's dreams to understand these laws and use of them that will bring the changes in the next millennium.
Paper Session III-B - Earth, Continuing to be a Better Place to Live from International Endeavors in Space
Radisson Resort at the Port, Convention Center, Salon I
For the last millennium civilizations have built temples and structures that looked to the sky and lined up with the stars at special times of the year. Before light pollution, mankind saw the night sky clearly and pondered daily his place in the heavens. True access to space has taken place in the last one hundred years and started with Russia's Konstantin Edvardovich Tsiolkovsky's first writings about staged rockets to escape Earth's gravity and with Robert Goddard's humble beginnings. The first rocket to escape Earth's atmosphere was launched by Wernher von Braun' team October 3rd 1942 from Peenemunde Germany. Mankind has made tremendous advances with these space endeavors. These advances are gained from knowledge of ourselves, our universe, and the natural laws of physics, which allows for our great technical achievements. The laws of physics will always remain the same. It's mankind's dreams to understand these laws and use of them that will bring the changes in the next millennium.
