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This chapter is about the cultural rationale for space activities. Of course the all rationales for space activities are cultural. Culture is to humans what water is to fish. Culture is all around us. We may not know it is there until it isn’t, such as when we encounter other cultures and discover there are humans who live differently from the way we do, who believe things we don’t believe, including, perhaps, that their culture is better than ours!
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Dator, J.A. (2012). Cultural Rationales for Space. In: Social Foundations of Human Space Exploration. SpringerBriefs in Space Development. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3094-0_4
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