When Science Disillusions
Having been a child of the 60s I was naturally inspired by what was euphemistically referred to as the Space Age--in my innocence being totally oblivious to the "arms race" that underlay and was the impetus for the race to the moon. I, liked my friends, dreamed of one day becoming an astronaut. We were glued to our black and white TV sets watching every launch of every mission. We were in awe when we sat in our seats in the movie theater and first viewed the then revolutionary vision of Arthur C. Clarke on the silver screen in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. We were, of course, all Star Trek junkies and each of us had plastic models that we had assembled of the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo capsules--visual aids of our childhood daydreams of one day exploring space. read more