Was it a good idea for humanity to go to space? Six years after the first satellite was launched, editors from the Encyclopaedia Britannica posed a question to five eminent thinkers of the day: “Has man’s conquest of space increased or diminished his stature?” https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ArnjPcAha8jdSCcBRXAvjn.jpg https://www.space.com/was-it-a-good-idea-for-humanity-to-go-to-space