“As a kid, I remembered how romantic and modern and beckoning space was. Life Magazine made heroes out of space pioneers. I loved the idea of exploring all the images we grew up with… and how excited we all were about the promise of the future above our heads.”
“I sometimes think with all the discussion of hardware and weaponized-tech if we’ve lost a little bit of the wonder of space — the magic of just looking upward, into the unknown. I love this old footage from the dawn of space exploration. It’s filled with giddy romance and the promise of what’s to come. And it’s also a real tribute to the NASA scientists, technicians, and astronauts … the 20th Century pioneers who pushed every boundary and reached further than our wildest dreams could have imagined…”
