1. Human Spaceflight:
A New Paradigm
Andrew Chaikin 2-22-12

2. It’s all about the Narrative ...
“They’re following our script”
-- Wernher von Braun to Ward Kimball,
December 1968

3. “When you’re making an impossible dream
come true, you can’t do business as usual.”
-- Alan Bean

4. Onward and Upward .... ?
“2001”
1969
1936
“The future ain’t what it used to be.”
-- Yogi Berra
1903

5. text
“Three ships is a lot of ships. Why can’t you prove the world
is round with one ship?” The New Yorker, 1970

6. A New Narrative

7. “A butterfly bolted to a bullet”

8. Field of Dreams (a.k.a., The Next Logical Step)
Popular Science, February 1985

9. WHAT Gold Rush?

10. The Dream That Fell to Earth

11. ISS: Another Engineering Marvel ...
... At What Cost?

12. WHY SPACE?
“We have been given eyes to see what the light year worlds
cannot see of themselves. We have been given hands to touch
the miraculous. We have been given hearts to know the
incredible. Can we shrink back to bed in our funeral clothes? Mars
says we cannot.
.... Free of the protection of the solid rock in which we hid to invent
fire, now we stand unprotected in an invisible rain that showers
from the Universe and will either cleanse us or melt us to nothing.”
-- Ray Bradbury
Too Soon from the Cave, Too Far from the Stars

13. WE MUST CHANGE THE COST SIDE OF THE COST-
BENEFIT EQUATION.
WHY HASN’T THAT HAPPENED LONG AGO?

14. THE “SELF-LICKING ICE CREAM CONE”

16. T+50 Years: ROUTINE
It’s STILL a Dream ... AFFORDABLE
SUSTAINABLE.

17. “When you’re making an impossible dream
come true, you can’t do business as usual.”
-- Alan Bean