A Hearth Library collection
Reaching Space
Imagining space and learning to live there, 1609–1962
How people imagined journeys beyond the Earth, pictured worlds and stations where people could live, and then went to see for themselves, in their own words. The sources behind Space Hotel Ltd.
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Classroom units on Hearth Learning. Each asks one big question and gathers its sources, teacher notes, a worksheet for each source and a download for your LMS.
- Unit 1Imagining life off the EarthHow did people picture traveling and living in space before anyone went?3 sources
- Unit 2Why go to space?What reasons did leaders give for going to space, and whom were they trying to persuade?2 sources
Sources
Literature
The Dream: a journey to the Moon
Johannes Kepler, Written in Prague about 1609; notes added 1620–30; published 1634, Frankfurt
LatinChecked
Imagining space travelAstronomy and the skyStories and novels
Literature
Signals from the Brick Moon
Edward Everett Hale, December 1869, Boston
EnglishChecked
Imagining space travelSpace stationsStories and novels
Literature
Greenhouses in Orbit
Tsiolkovsky, Written January–April 1917; printed in part in Priroda i liudi, 1918, and in full at Kaluga, 1920, Kaluga
RussianChecked
Imagining space travelSpace stationsStories and novels
Statement
Signing the National Aeronautics and Space Act
Dwight D. Eisenhower, July 29, 1958, Washington
EnglishChecked
The space race (1957–1969)Speeches and edicts
Speech
We choose to go to the Moon
John F. Kennedy, September 12, 1962, Houston
EnglishChecked
The space race (1957–1969)Speeches and edicts
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