the runaway species how human creativity remakes the world

Now they have to shred that playbook and start over. Moon’s orbit, when the lunar module would deploy, how long the astronauts would walk on the surface. I don’t give a damn about the odds and I don’t give a damn that we’ve never done anything like this before … You’ve got to believe, your people have got to believe, that this crew is coming home.1 How can Mission Control make good on this promise? The engineers have rehearsed the mission down to the minute: when Apollo 13 would reach the He announces to his assembled staff: When you leave this room, you must leave believing that this crew is coming home.

But that doesn’t slow down the flight director back in NASA Mission Control, Gene Kranz. The hopes for a solution are close to zero. Fuel, water, electricity and air are running out. “Houston, we’ve had a problem.” The astronauts are over 200,000 miles from Earth. Astronaut Jack Swigert, with the understatement of a military man, radios Mission Control. It’s 1970 and Apollo 13 is two days into its moonshot when its oxygen tank explodes, spewing debris into space and crippling the craft. Into the future Acknowledgments Image Credits Bibliography Notes IndexĮveral hundred people scramble in a control room in Houston, trying to save three humans ensnared in outer space. Tolerate risk Part III: Cultivating Creativity 11.

Living in the B-hive Part II: The Creative Mentality 7. The brain alters what it already knows 3. Our wives, who fill our lives with novelty KarolĪnd our children, whose imaginations summon the future Sonya, Gabe, LucianĬONTENTS Introduction: What do NASA and Picasso have in common? Part I: New Under the Sun 1. To our parents, who brought us into a life of creativity Nat & Yanna Published by Catapult Simultaneously published in Great Britain in 2017 by Canongate Books Ltd Copyright © 2017 by Anthony Brandt Copyright © 2017 by David Eagleman ISBN: 978-1-93 Catapult titles are distributed to the trade by Publishers Group West Phone: 86 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016959435 Printed in Great Britain 987654321

The runaway species how human creativity remakes the world