Memoirs Of An Armchair Astronaut (Retired)

A. C. Clarke. (1993), JBIS, 46, pp.411-414

Refcode: 1993.46.411

Abstract:

For my money, the heroic period of the space age lay between 1935 and 1955; what’s happened since has had a slight air of anticlimax. True, men are now actually preparing to go to the Moon, but today everyone takes a little thing like that for granted, and eminent scientists no longer rise in their wrath to denounce rocketeers as irresponsible crackpots. The only arguments about space that one hears today are of this type: Should Brobdingnag Astrodynamics or Consolidated Aerospace be awarded the $326,709, 163 contract for the first stage Mastodon booster?