The Spaceflight Narrative: A Literary History of Leaving Earth

How three hundred years of storytelling and literature laid the foundations for spaceflight, from NASA’s first chief economist.

The Spaceflight Narrative explores the earliest origins of spaceflight as it emerged through storytelling in works of literature and commentary dating back over three hundred years. Spaceflight emerged first as a cultural product that inspired, motivated, and transferred knowledge to the earliest spaceflight technology pioneers. Written by NASA’s former chief econom...