Will Space Change Humanity

摘要: In 1956 the philosopher Hannah Arendt delivered a series of lectures at University Chicago in which she considered human condition from vantage point what were then “our newest experiences and our most recent fears”. Three great events, said, had shaped modern age determined its character: first, discovery America ensuing exploration world; second, Reformation social economic transformations that followed ; third, invention telescope revolutionary perspective on earth heavens promoted by astronomy. Before, however, these could be published another event occurred: October 4, 1957 first Sputnik was launched, inaugurating space age.