Space: Ever Farther, Ever Faster - Now! - Paperbackby Ed Gibson (Author), Jack Schmitt (Foreword by) Finally, we, as humanity, have severed the chains of gravity that bound us to Earth. At long last, we have emerged from our cradle and embarked on the journey to explore and inhabit the near infinite universe that surrounds us. This monumental achievement is the culmination of 4. 5 billion years of evolution. We have come to realize that we no longer venture into the cosmos as individual humans;