"THE EARTH IS THE CRADLE OF HUMANKIND, BUT ONE DOES NOT LIVE IN THE CRADLE FOREVER" -- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, 1895... "I AM EAGLE!" -- Yuri Gagarin, April 12, 1961 on the First Human Spaceflight

*********************** "HUMANS MUST RISE ABOVE THE EARTH TO THE TOP OF THE ATMOSPHERE AND BEYOND, FOR ONLY THUS WILL WE UNDERSTAND THE WORLD IN WHICH WE LIVE." -- Socrates, 400 B.C.

"IS THIS WILD DREAM OF SPACE, THE BREAKING SHELL, HUMAN, TO FREE, AT LAST, YOUR DREAMING SOUL?... I LOOK AT EARTH FROM DISTANT SKIES AND WONDER, IF HUMAN KNEW THE LIVING POWER THAT RESTS IN HIM WOULD HE DARE THE UNKNOWN TOO?" -- Teacher and astronomer Aline Carter, Poet Laureate of Texas, 1947-49, from Ms. Carter's book of poetry, "Doubt Not the Dream" about the space travel dreams of humans.

"WE ARE ALL PASSENGERS ON SPACESHIP EARTH." -- Buckminster Fuller

"TO BOLDLY GO WHERE NO ONE HAS GONE BEFORE" -- Captain Jean-Luc Picard ("Star Trek: The Next Generation")

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"ASTRO-GAIA NEWS" of NYC....

The "SPACESHIP GAIA EXPLORER JOURNAL" is now the archival supplement of the "ASTRO-GAIA NEWS of NYC," with additional special reports. "ASTRO-GAIA NEWS" was launched into cyberspace on SPACE EXPLORATION DAY in the USA (July 20, 2006). THE CURRENT EDITION is posted on the link below. Look there for the latest space and environmental news and announcements from New York City and Beyond.

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New Link! From Brooklyn, NY, which if it were a separate city, would be the USA's sixth largest. Read what real people are doing in real ways to help save energy using alternative power sources and how they help the environment and create a growing sustainable society at GreenBeat Brooklyn -- http://greenbeatbrookyn.blogspot.com by Sarah Tobol of the Brooklyn Eagle.

[Image above is of the medieval "Green-Man" motif on many old European buildings.]

"SPACESHIP GAIA EXPLORER" MISSION CONTROL Table of Contents:

The "AEROSPACE DESIGN: The Art of Engineering from NASA's Aeronautical Research" Exhibition was held at THE PRATT MANHATTAN GALLERY in New York City from October 7 through December 17, 2005. The show, the first ever of its kind on this entralling subject, was free and open to the public. For more information on the exhibition: www.pratt.edu/exhibitions.

A richly illustrated and highly informative book, "AEROSPACE DESIGN: AIRCRAFT, SPACECRAFT, AND THE ART OF MODERN FLIGHT" published by Merrell Publishers, London-New York (www.merrellpublishers.com) and edited by Tony Springer of NASA is available from the Pratt Store.

An EXHIBITION REVIEW on the Pratt-NASA Exhibit, "FROM THE WRIGHT STUFF TO THE RIGHT STUFF: AEROSPACE DESIGN WIND TUNNEL VISIONS TAKE FLIGHT" by Journal Editor Harold Egeln, is at the link below:

EARTH VOICES FOR SPACE TRAVEL See Both "A Million Reasons to Go into Space" from ZIA Space & SPACE QUOTES TO PONDER... Get involved!!!

This Journal is a COSMIC ECOLOGY MEDIA Publication -- UPDATED: DECEMBER 5, 2008

This website is created and produced, thanks to the services of MSN-TV, by Spaceship Gaia Crewmember Harold Walter Egeln and is a copyright 2008 ��� Harold W. Egeln/COSMIC ECOLOGY MEDIA with All Rights Reserved.

It saw "FIRST LIGHT" (published) on Mother's Day, Sunday, MAY 9, 2004 in honor of MOTHERSHIP EARTH, "SPACESHIP GAIA."

Editor HAROLD W. EGELN is a professional journalist in New York City, and is currently a reporter with the "Brooklyn Daily Eagle" newspaper.

Egeln was, from June 2006 to January 2008, the PRESIDENT of the THE NEW YORK SPACE SOCIETY [NSS-NYC, the NATIONAL SPACE SOCIETY's NYC Chapter] and is also a member of THE PLANETARY SOCIETY.He has previously worked for the Courier-Life newspapers in Brooklyn (2005-2007); as a N.Y. City Council district office media employee (2004-05), a staff reporter for the "Home Reporter" and "Brooklyn Spectator" newspapers (1989-2004), an environmental columnist for the "Downtown Arts Weekly" (1992-95), and was Executive Director of the New York City branch of a large national nonprofit organization, Committee for a SANE Nuclear Policy (1984-1989), now called Peace Action. A New Jersey native, he lives in Brooklyn, NYC, since 1982.

(Photo of Mars, courtesy of NASA, was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.)

JOURNAL DEDICATION

This E-Journal is dedicated to a great educator, MRS. ANNE BEATTY SCHMIDT, my seventh grade English teacher at Mount Vernon Avenue School in Irvington, New Jersey, for her encouragement for me to become a writer. Her brother-in-law was the famed actor Ralph Bellamy, noted for his role as FDR in "Sunrise At Campabella."

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