The ATOM’s Effect on the Final Frontier
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
—Plato
Ultimately, the endgame of any treatise on future visions invariably marches toward one particular topic. We earlier examined how the ATOM was creating commercial activity in space for the first time, such as private spaceflight, asteroid mining, and zero-gravity 3D printing. As sophisticated as this may seem, these are still just stepping stones to how the ATOM links our civilization to space.
When the space race was underway in the 1957–77 period and mankind made seemingly giant leaps, many enthusiasts extrapolated that rate of progress forward and predicted a substantial human presence in space by ...
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