Derecho del Turismo en las Américas

44 DERECHO DEL TURISMO EN LAS AMÉRICAS to extend the hope and inspiration of da Vinci to the courageous exploration of an entire ocean planet, and succeeded. Yet it required another 60 years for Drake to repeat Magellan’s achievement, and another century or more before transoceanic voyages were routine and part of the human experience. Today we stand naïvely on the shores of a wondrous cosmic ocean with prospects of realizing our place in the universe at hand. The forever frontier will soon by challenged, as Magellan and Elcano challenged the boundaries of an ocean‑covered planet, by science‑driven exploration via a great observatory named the James Webb Space Telescope or JWST. This human‑defined and constructed robotic wonder will expand our vision and experience in ways that are somewhat unknown by projecting our human vision literally to the stars. Via JWST we will explore the cosmic ocean of the forever frontier in ways that perhaps only explorers such as Magellan dared to imagine 500 years ago. In some ways, Magellan’s achievement of five centuries ago has now given humanity the courage and hope to expand our human imagination across the accessible universe, riding on the waves of photons that describe different times and places where someday we must go. Magellan and his ships carried human imagination with them and via Elcano returned with great stories captured in diaries and chronicles in an era without Instant communication and Information transfer. The world‑wide‑web of today had not even been Imagined, and yet the history of that first circumnavigation was told and remains today as one of the great monuments of human exploration. As the space business frontier expands how we share Information and learn to utilize the powers of nearby space, it is thus essential that we compare the state of our exploration circa 2020 to that of the Magellan era (1519‑1522). In that era of cathedrals and rebirth of human scientific Imagination that catalyzed Newton and later Darwin, there was an optimism that catalyzed great feats of transportation engineering and navigation that enabled Magellan’s epic voyage. The epic voyages that can now be imagined and implemented 500 years later share the curiosity‑driven hope of discovery that was a hallmark of Magellan’s vision. We cannot predict the transcendental discoveries of the next 50 years, but thanks to the recognition and celebration of Magellan’s ocean‑based circumnavigation, a new hope is at hand as we, the people of planet Earth, dare to expand our vision of our cosmic ocean via great space‑based observatories like JWST that are akin to cathedrals of the mind. Who is to say how we will look back from the year 2520 to assess what we accomplished circa 2020, but my hope is that we will say that we captured the wonder of Magellan’s 16th century