Electronic communication enabled space exploration by reducing control signal time.

Evidence

As printing went with seagoing navigation and the telegraph with the railway, electronic and computer-based communi- cation go with the space ship. … The availability of electronic communication, with its capacity to increase control by reducing signaling time, has turned space into the next area of expansion. — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 663

Categorization

• XREF: The parallel — print with navigation, telegraph with railway, electronics with spaceship — extends Carey’s transmission-and-control theme from earlier chapters. — connects to: Digital communication technologies have fundamentally changed public communication, reshaping perception of space and interaction — The Influence Of Communication Technology On Human Relations
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 663