Mars - the next "Giant Leap"? - Gene H Hogberg - September 1969

Gene H Hogberg

Two vital factors are propelling the U. S. space program to new heights: 1) the need for a new national goal, 2) the determined search for extra-terrestrial life. "Man has started his drive into the universe," pro claimed a leading American space official on the eve of the Apollo 11 launch. It was, he confidently predicted, "the beginning of a movement that will never stop!" President Nixon, welcoming home the three Apollo astronauts, told them: "Because of what you have done, the heavens have become a part of man's world." Space is suddenly big news! The moon, say space scientists, is merely the first rung on the ladder of space. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library