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“Early on it became clear to me that, beyond hardware specifics, nothing short of a comprehensive technological-economic-cultural-anthropological, in a word, a global approach would suffice, to comprehend and justify the bold new initiatives required,” Ehricke said. And so in 1957, at the dawning of the space age, he had penned the seminal “Anthropology of Astronautics,” which you can download from this website. It was the seed of his to-be-published book, The Extraterrestrial Imperative: From Closed to Open World, and it contained his bold assertion… |