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Spaceship Earth was originally sponsored by the Bell System from 1982 until 1984, [13] [14] when it was broken into smaller companies and its parent company, AT&T, became an independent company. AT&T sponsored Spaceship Earth from 1984 until 2004. From 2005 until 2017, the German company Siemens was the sponsor of Spaceship Earth. As of 2025 ...
The following year, Spaceship Earth became the title of a book by a friend of Stevenson's, the economist Barbara Ward. [full citation needed] In 1966, Kenneth E. Boulding, who was influenced by reading Henry George's work, [6] used the phrase in the title of his essay, The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth. [7]
The site's critics consensus reads: "Spaceship Earth achieves liftoff as an engaging behind-the-scenes record of an audacious experiment -- and settles into orbit as poignant proof of the power of a shared dream." [2] Metacritic assigned the film an average weighted score of 73 out of 100, based on 26 critics, indicating "generally favorable ...
Operating Manual For Spaceship Earth is a short book by R. Buckminster Fuller, first published in 1969, following an address with a similar title given to the 50th annual convention of the American Planners Association in the Shoreham Hotel, Washington D.C., on 16 October 1967. [1] The book relates Earth to a spaceship flying through space.
Spaceship Earth is a worldview of concern over limited resource use on Earth. It may also refer to: Spaceship Earth (detector), a network of neutron monitors designed to measure the flux of cosmic rays arriving at Earth from different directions; Spaceship Earth (Epcot), an attraction at the Epcot theme park in Walt Disney World Resort, Florida ...
Spaceship Earth was a 350,000-pound Brazilian blue quartzite sculpture created by Finnish American artist Eino Romppanen, Eino. [1] The sculpture was commissioned by Brian Maxwell of Powerbar the Maxwell Family Foundation for the late environmentalist David Brower and its name was often used by Brower referring to mankind traveling through life in a common vehicle. [2]
Spaceship Earth is a network of neutron monitors designed to measure the flux of cosmic rays arriving at Earth from different directions. [1] All the 12 member neutron monitor stations are located at high (Northern or Southern) latitude, which makes their detecting directions more precise, and their energy responses uniform.
Telerobotics also allows exploration of regions that are vulnerable to contamination by Earth micro-organisms since spacecraft can be sterilized. Humans can not be sterilized in the same way as a spaceship, as they coexist with numerous micro-organisms, and these micro-organisms are also hard to contain within a spaceship or spacesuit.