Was it Robert Heinlein, author of Stranger in a Strange Land and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, who said that “everything was theoretically impossible till it was done”? Whoever it was, thinkers and doers in the space sector seem to have taken that to heart. Every day, we learn of some clever new creation, some device or contrivance that can, say, shape light from a laser beam, or track invisible gases, or predict where a wildfire will start.
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