How centuries of sci-fi sparked spaceflight

NASA economist Alexander MacDonald shares how the human imagination for space flight wasn’t only sparked by history’s esteemed scientists but also our great storytellers. This talk was filmed at TEDxAuckland.
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Lucian of Samosata was a Syrian-Greek that wrote a fiction titled "True History". It featured a voyage to outer space.

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