ABSTRACT
The closely guarded state secrets of maps and the resources of seafaring countries would concentrate incredible national resources on these high-risk endeavours. During the histories of naval exploration, the possibility of discovering new worlds combined great risk with the possibility of fame and riches. Similar to ocean exploration, space exploration carries with it truly new worlds and great risk. Many of the Voyager satellites, or Mars rovers, represent the first time these hugely complex computer programmes, remote operating systems, and autonomous extreme environmental technologies were created and directly applied to being used in these most challenging of circumstances such as space exploration. Psychology and the way we understand how we think about our planet, our environment, and ourselves are having seismic impacts on every aspect of our lives and the future of our species as well as the planet.
