In the current issue of Physics Today there’s a review of the book Astrotopia by Mary-Jane Rubenstein. Subtitle is “The dangerous religion of the corporate space race.”
It takes to task Musk, Bezos, Branson and others calling their efforts a “mythological project” analogous to the type of “imperial Christianity” that was used by Europeans to colonize more than half the planet.
One paragraph: “Rubenstein convincingly demonstrates that NASA and US politicians used Christian imperialist language to justify the Apollo mission. In other words, it’s no coincidence that the Apollo 8 crew read from the book of Genesis while orbiting the Moon on Christmas Eve 1968.”
I can’t find an online version of the review (it’s pretty brief) but here’s another review:
https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2022/12/book-review-astrotopia-by-mary-jane-rubenstein/
Unfortunately Physics Today has become a bit of a woke train wreck.
Don’t you just love how those who can not “do” end up writing envious vitriol to assuage their bitter jealousy?
That is what screams out to me from Mary-Jane Rubenstein writings.
How much Mary Jane has Rubenstein been smoking?