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Benjamin's book may burn with a sense of a dream betrayed, but her smoldering, often cynical anger . This is how she discusses the unfortunate demise of our most brilliant NASA dreams

Benjamin's book may burn with a sense of a dream betrayed, but her smoldering, often cynical anger never blinds or paralyzes her narrative. This is how she discusses the unfortunate demise of our most brilliant NASA dreams. She casts most of the blame on the astronaughts completely; because she feels that by landing on the Moon, studying the Moon and spending vast amounts of money, energy and talk about the Moon, all that we wanted to do was speak of the Earth.

Rocket Dreams is about those solutions. about the places where the space program landed. In Rocket Dreams, an extraordinarily talented young writer named Marina Benjamin will take you on a journey to those landing sites

Rocket Dreams is about those solutions. In Rocket Dreams, an extraordinarily talented young writer named Marina Benjamin will take you on a journey to those landing sites. A visit with retired astronauts at a celebrity autograph show is a starting point down the divergent paths taken by the pioneers, including Edgar Mitchell, founder of the "church" of Noëtic Sciences

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Marina Benjamin is a recovering space addict

Marina Benjamin is a recovering space addict. As a girl, she tells us, she was obsessed by the Apollo programme and its promise of a wild black yonder - a promise that, in the 1970s and since, seems to have been thoroughly broken. Rocket Dreams is an attempt to understand what that enthusiasm for space meant to those who held it, how it faded, and to what extent the phenomenon of cyberspace is its resurrection, or re-enactment, or legacy.

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In her new book Rocket Dreams: How the Space Age Shaped Our Vision of a World Beyond, Marina Benjamin .

In her new book Rocket Dreams: How the Space Age Shaped Our Vision of a World Beyond, Marina Benjamin argues that space exploration has shaped our worldviews in more ways than on. Benjamin thinks it is no coincidence that the first Earth Day on April 20, 1970, occurred in the midst of the Apollo program; or that one of the astronauts developed a new school of spiritualism; or that people "should be drawn to an innovative model for the domestic economy sprung free from the American space program by NASA administrator James Webb. Exploration shapes world views and changes cultures in unexpected ways, and so does lack of exploration.

Rocket Dreams is her quicksilver tour, teasing out the threads of imagination that once streamed into space, around a world .

Rocket Dreams is her quicksilver tour, teasing out the threads of imagination that once streamed into space, around a world that has shrunk but has grown complicated. The astronauts were the first explorers who could not tear themselves away from the sight of where they came from.

Benjamin's book may burn with a sense of a dream betrayed, but her smoldering, often cynical anger never blinds or paralyzes her narrative. Without feigning objectivity, she takes on a very tough question: what does space mean to us? Then she follows it through launch facilities, astronaut autograph sessions, alleged UFO crash sites in Roswell, and, apparently, into many a library.

Marina Benjamin is the author of four books: Rocket Dreams: How the Space Age Shaped Our Vision of a World Beyond (2003), Last Days in Babylon (2006), The Middlepause: On Turning Fifty (2016), and Insomnia (2018). A Mind in Transit: Marina Benjamin on Insomnia. A memoir on the liminal state of sleeplessness and mind wandering.

Rocket Dreams is a fast-moving, fact-filled study of how all the dreams that went in to moonflight in the '60s have found new homes and mutated into new fascination with space. It is about our unquenchable desire to reach out to other worlds, physical and imaginative.