Book takes a look at seven stories from, you know, what i think of as a hundred and 50 year period where people were really taking seriously this idea that humans cannon should go live in space forever. Von bran was the chief designer of the saturn five rocket that landed americans on the moon in 19 69. Elon musk is drawing inspiration from what was called after the space brak race. The book also looks at how vonbran came to work for adolph hitler and albert speer in the war machine of notty germany.
Paris Marx is joined by Fred Scharmen to discuss Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos’ visions for space colonization, the inspiration they draw from the work of Wernher von Braun and Gerard O’Neill, and what’s wrong with basing our future on those ideas.
Fred Scharmen is the author of Space Forces: A Critical History of Life in Outer Space. He teaches architecture and urban design at Morgan State University’s School of Architecture and Planning and is the co-founder of the Working Group on Adaptive Systems. Follow Fred on Twitter at @sevensixfive.
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