In sci.space.history message
egroups.com, Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:38:20, Al
posted:

In fact, tho not about a Mars expedition, A. C. Clarke's Prelude to
Space was published in 1951, and as a novel its just about as dull as
von Braun's , but does have a more professional narrative.

It does, however, include a sentence that would have been very useful
for quoting in (approximately) 1993-2000 and may also be so,
appropriately modified, in 2009-2012.

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