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Jane Poynter on Space Travel as a Pathway to Shifting Perspectives

At a Distance

CHAPTER

The Slow Approach to Space

The SBGK017 is Grand Seiko's first timepiece to go into space. The company has created a capsule that can carry eight people at 12 miles an hour. Pointer: "It gives us this incredibly unique vantage point to really grasp the idea and the fact that we are a singular human family all inhabiting spaceship earth"

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