The Rocket Worked Perfectly, Except For Landing

With Our Present Knowledge, We Can Respond To The Challenge Of Stellar Space Flight Solely With Intellectual Concepts And Purely Hypothetical Analysis. Hardware Solutions Are Still Entirely Beyond Our Reach And Far, Far Away.

Can A Physicist Visualize An Electron? The Electron Is Materially Inconceivable And Yet, It Is So Perfectly Known Through Its Effects That We Use It To Illuminate Our Cities, Guide Our Airlines Through The Night Skies And Take The Most Accurate Measurements. What Strange Rationale Makes Some Physicists Accept The Inconceivable Electrons As Real While Refusing To Accept The Reality Of A Designer On The Ground That They Cannot Conceive Him?

Although I Know Of No Reference To Christ Ever Commenting On Scientific Work, I Do Know That He Said, "ye Shall Know The Truth, And The Truth Shall Make You Free." Thus I Am Certain That, Were He Among Us Today, Christ Would Encourage Scientific Research As Modern Man's Most Noble Striving To Comprehend And Admire His Father's Handiwork. The Universe As Revealed Through Scientific Inquiry Is The Living Witness That God Has Indeed Been At Work.

In Order For Us To Use The Very Best Judgment Possible In Spending The Taxpayer's Money Intelligently, We Just Have To Do A Certain Amount Of This Research And Development Work Ourselves. We Just Have To Keep Our Own Hands Dirty To Command The Professional Respect Of The Contractor Personnel Engaged With Actual Design, Shop And Testing Work.

I Believe That The Time Has Arrived For Medical Investigation Of The Problems Of Manned Rocket Flight, For It Will Not Be The Engineering Problems But Rather The Limits Of The Human Frame That Will Make The Final Decision As To Whether Manned Space Flight Will Eventually Become A Reality.