The Moon by Maryam Sachs
1998
Weight: 1.4 lbs
Method of Disposal: Lending Library
No matter how badly I want to go, I will never go to space and so I dream of the moon. I am sure that, if it was a more serious possibility, I might choose somewhere else in the solar system to travel to or maybe I would just orbit around earth and view everything I know from a distance. It will never happen. I am not on track to be rich, but I am on track to be an overweight 33 year old woman who dreams.
I guess the moon makes logical sense as a place many people dream to go when they dream of space. We have all the imagery from NASA of the first man walking on the moon and the excitement the country felt watching him. We have yet to put a person on Mars or any other planet and so the moon is, at least somewhat, attainable. It will be for the wealthy soon enough anyway.
If you can put down an $80,000 deposit and ultimately pay $9.5 million for a vacation, you may be able to be one of the first guests in the Aurora Station Space Hotel in 2022. Your vacation will be 12 days and the hotel will orbit the Earth (not land on the moon). That is so unattainable to me it might as well not exist. and I jealously dread seeing the guest list when it is announced. I already feel the unfairness of it all weighing down on me (thank you gravity!).
This book includes various photos of the moon, poems about the moon, facts, thoughts throughout history, etc. It is fun, though if there could have been an even larger budget (I assume), it would have been even better to have it be a larger book with more high definition photos. This book has some fairly grainy small ones. It feels like a moon smorgasbord. Nothing flows. It is just all there on the pages. It is fun, but it is simple.
1998
Weight: 1.4 lbs
Method of Disposal: Lending Library
No matter how badly I want to go, I will never go to space and so I dream of the moon. I am sure that, if it was a more serious possibility, I might choose somewhere else in the solar system to travel to or maybe I would just orbit around earth and view everything I know from a distance. It will never happen. I am not on track to be rich, but I am on track to be an overweight 33 year old woman who dreams.
I guess the moon makes logical sense as a place many people dream to go when they dream of space. We have all the imagery from NASA of the first man walking on the moon and the excitement the country felt watching him. We have yet to put a person on Mars or any other planet and so the moon is, at least somewhat, attainable. It will be for the wealthy soon enough anyway.
If you can put down an $80,000 deposit and ultimately pay $9.5 million for a vacation, you may be able to be one of the first guests in the Aurora Station Space Hotel in 2022. Your vacation will be 12 days and the hotel will orbit the Earth (not land on the moon). That is so unattainable to me it might as well not exist. and I jealously dread seeing the guest list when it is announced. I already feel the unfairness of it all weighing down on me (thank you gravity!).
This book includes various photos of the moon, poems about the moon, facts, thoughts throughout history, etc. It is fun, though if there could have been an even larger budget (I assume), it would have been even better to have it be a larger book with more high definition photos. This book has some fairly grainy small ones. It feels like a moon smorgasbord. Nothing flows. It is just all there on the pages. It is fun, but it is simple.
