Space and the human quest. (America at 500: Pioneering the Space Frontier)

National Forum | June 22, 1992| | Copyright

After a long life of restless travel that has carried me to every corner of the Earth I had ever wanted to visit, save one, I remain perplexed as to why men and women feel this compulsion to quit home and explore distant lands. And during this five-hundredth anniversary of the first of the four great Columbus voyages, the question becomes even more relevant.

I have never felt myself in any way affiliated with the great Venetian traveler Marco Polo (1254-1324), since he traveled in style in a subsidiary position to his father and uncle, who were nobles and friends of the ...

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