Re: Opening the High Frontier of Space

Mark R. Whittington <mwhittingt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Many years ago, the Astronomer Royal of Great Britain Richard vander
Riet Woolley famously declared, "Space travel is utter bilge."

What he actually said (in 1956) was
"All this writing about space travel is utter bilge. To go to the
moon would cost as much as a major war."
I think the context of the next sentence somewhat changes the
interpretation...

ciao,

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