Space Technology

Tomorrow’s Space Technology Is Now. Should We Be Excited?

Similarities between Star Trek fiction and technological fact, shall we debunk the myth from reality and discover what is yet to come?

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“Space is for everybody. It’s not just for a few people in science or math, or for a select group of astronauts. That’s our new frontier out there, and it’s everybody’s business to know about space.”

Christa McAuliffe.

A memory of whom the world shalt not forget.

STS-51-L. The Day Challenger Exploded 73 Seconds after Lift-Off, Killing All Seven Crew Members

Site-to-site transporters, personal handheld communicators, viewscreens the size of an entire wall, warp drive, shuttle pods, language translators, artificial intelligence with supercomputers so powerful that they can calculate one quadrillion calculations per second, artificial gravity plating, spacecraft capable of traveling between the stars at warp, handheld scanners, laser weaponry, food synthesizers, holodeck technology, and a single tablet that cures all illness, I could…