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Promising the moon/ Pursuit of a dream inspired the nation and the world
From:
Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph
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July 16, 1989| Author:
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Throughout history, the inconstant moon has drawn wonder,
worship, study and fear.
Astronomers have plotted its course, physicists its gravity, and
poets its tug on the human heart.
It also has fired the imaginations of adventurers, whose visions
of lunar voyages sometimes were eerily prophetic.
In the earliest known writing about space travel, the Greek
satirist Lucian of Samosata tells in the First Century of a sailing
ship lifted to the moon on a waterspout. His second story tells of
a purposeful voyage to the moon that took three days.
In the 1600s, Savinien de Cyrano de ...
