It Must Be Wonderful To Be Seventeen,

When I Start On A Book, I Have Been Thinking About It And Making Occasional Notes For Some Time... So I Have Lots Of Theme, Locale, Subjects And Technical Ideas... I Don't Worry About Long Periods Of Not Doing Anything. I Know My Subconscious Is Busy.

Many, And Some Of The Most Pressing, Of Our Terrestrial Problems Can Be Solved Only By Going Into Space. Long Before It Was A Vanishing Commodity, The Wilderness As The Preservation Of The World Was Proclaimed By Thoreau. In The New Wilderness Of The Solar System May Lie The Future Preservation Of Mankind.

I Don't Pretend We Have All The Answers. But The Questions Are Certainly Worth Thinking About.

Guns Are The Crutches Of The Impotent.

Space Can Be Mapped And Crossed And Occupied Without Definable Limit; But It Can Never Be Conquered.