On Oct 23, 10:40*pm, Andrew Nowicki
wrote:
http://milo.com/blog/vintage-space-travel/

I grew up on Clarke's EXPLORATION OF SPACE, Colliers' articles MAN
WILL CONQUER SPACE SOON by VonBraun, and Disney's TV shows and movies
that vividly portrayed our future in space!

http://www.brooklynbooks.us/si/8oo60.html
http://home.flash.net/~aajiv/bd/colliers.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBi69V8oNuw

The 1950s would lead to landing on the moon in the 1960s, and thence
to opening of the solar system in the 1970s where we would have
limitless energy and materials to feed an ever growing economy and end
war, poverty, hunger, privation and ignorance forever - fulfilling the
promise of technology by the end of the second millennium.

Arthur Clarke said in 1951:

"The crossing of space ... may do much to turn men's minds outwards
and away from their present tribal squabbles. In this sense, the
rocket, far from being one of the destroyers of civilisation, may
provide the safety-value that is needed to preserve it."

Which echoed the writings of Jules Verne in 1865

"In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would
shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some magic circle
which it must never outstep, we shall one day travel to the moon, the
planets, and the stars, with the same facility, rapidity, and
certainty as we now make the voyage from Liverpool to New York."

When will we do it?

Now!

http://www.scribd.com/doc/30943696/ETDHLRLV
http://www.scribd.com/doc/31261680/Etdhlrlv-Addendum
http://www.scribd.com/doc/35439593/S...-Satellite-GEO