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Fall | Winter 2025 SPACE
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Humans instinctively fear the dark with one exception—the expanse overhead. For millennia, we’ve looked up and looked out into space. In the digital-only Fall issue of Oklahoma Humanities magazine, we're revealing the power of the Pale Blue Dot; the diplomatic potential of space exploration; a son's perspective on Lucy the spacecraft in the sky with stories; the experience of a total eclipse; Oklahoma's connection to wide-open space; and how comfort food takes on deeper meaning miles above Earth. The outer limits have always played a role in how we see ourselves. Before space was the final frontier, it was the first.
Authors and contributors include: Dr. Shad Satterthwaite, Dr. Jennifer Levasseur, Kashona Notah, Dr. Joshua Grasso, Dr. Stephanie Miller, Dr. Rebecca Jacobs-Pollez, Adrian Owen Jones, Janice Francis-Smith, Dr. Charles Kenney, and Rhys Martin.