Star Trek And History (2013)
“Bruce Franklin By God, we’ve kicked the Vietnam syndrome once and for all!” proclaimed President George H. W. Bush in March 1991, flush with what seemed to be a swift and decisive victory in the first Iraq war. Had the blitzkrieg of Iraq with wonder weapons from American technology truly liberated our nation from the “syndrome” of Vietnam?
At the same moment the president was speaking, but tens of millions of miles away, another miracle of American technology was beaming home startling images, ...very different from the war videos still streaming into American households. The robot spacecraft Magellan, peering with its radar devices through the boiling acid clouds that shroud Venus, was transmitting our first coherent view of the surface of Earth’s sister planet.
Scientists watching the arrival of Magellan’s imaging wizardry marveled at the nonstop, detailed pictures of great swaths of landscape, as sharp and as clear as photographs. Orbiting thousands of times, Magellan transmitted back a complete topographic map of the alien planet.MoreLess
At the same moment the president was speaking, but tens of millions of miles away, another miracle of American technology was beaming home startling images, ...very different from the war videos still streaming into American households. The robot spacecraft Magellan, peering with its radar devices through the boiling acid clouds that shroud Venus, was transmitting our first coherent view of the surface of Earth’s sister planet.
Scientists watching the arrival of Magellan’s imaging wizardry marveled at the nonstop, detailed pictures of great swaths of landscape, as sharp and as clear as photographs. Orbiting thousands of times, Magellan transmitted back a complete topographic map of the alien planet.MoreLess
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