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Amazing interplanetary future
SUCCUMBING, as we expected, to temptation and seeking entertaining mis-predictions in Â鶹´«Ã½‘s 1964 vision of The World in 1984 (25 January), Feedback starts with the low-hanging fruit.
In 1964, Wernher von Braun was Director of the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. He was self-assured about the glorious future of this post. “Man may have landed on the surface of Mars by 1984,” he began. “Manned ‘fly-bys’ of Venus will have been made… Astronauts will be…
