Concluding Thoughts

Section V: Concluding Thoughts When we first arrived, and for twenty years after that, Mars was like Antarctica but even purer. We were outside the world, we didn’t even own

Section IV: Exoplanets Suddenly Nadia felt a breeze swirl through her nervous system, running up her spine and out into her skin; her cheeks tingled, and she could feel her

Section III: Asteroids Back in the socket, on the other side of the cable, upbound elevator cars were being loaded with refined metals, platinum, gold, uranium, and silver. Then the

Section II: Mars She tumbled, landed on a knee and both hands. Her gloves broke through the duricrust. It felt like a layer of caked sand at the beach, only

Section I: Low Earth Orbit “But the General Assembly can’t be happy that you’ve given the first concession to an old South African weapons manufacturer!” Helmut shrugged. “Armscor has very

That is utopia … especially for primitives and scientists, which is to say everybody. Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars You are reading the HTML version of Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities: A Collection

Why should we go to space? Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities takes on the challenge of imagining new stories at the intersection of public and private—narratives that use the economic and social history of exploration, as well as current technical and scientific research, to inform scenarios for the future of the “new space” era.