In recent years, a popular slogan in the space industry has been, “We are entering the Golden Age of space exploration.” Indeed, we have witnessed unprecedented advancements in launch vehicles, the ...
When we think about the voyages of Christopher Columbus, we often think only about the effects they had on the New World. But, equally important was the transfer of goods from west to east. A ...
As NASA fosters technologies needed to live and work farther away from home than ever before, the agency’s Technology Transfer program.
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Why Italy missed the chance to colonize the Americas
Italy didn’t colonize the Americas because Italy didn’t exist as a unified country when the age of exploration began. The peninsula was divided into rival city-states locked in constant warfare, ...
INTRODUCTION -- Spain in America: explorations and civilization / Javier Morales Vallejo -- Spanish art and science in the age of exploration / Chiyo Ishikawa -- EMPIRE AND IMAGE -- The world of early ...
Introduction : an empire of the mind -- Selim the navigator : 1512-1520 -- Ibrahim Pasha and the Age of Reconnaissance : 1520-1536 -- Hadim Suleiman Pasha's world war : 1536-1546 -- Rustem Pasha ...
The realms of pride and awe / Daniel J. Boorstin -- Circa 1492 : history and art / Jay A. Levenson -- Observations and beliefs : the world of the Catalan atlas / Jean Michel Massing -- Portuguese ...
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