“[The purpose of flight research] is to separate the real from the imagined problems and to make known the overlooked and the unexpected.” RealProblemSciencePurposeImaginationKnownResearchFlightUnexpectedOverlooked Author:Hugh Latimer Dryden
“I know that some knowledgeable people fear that although we might be willing to spend a couple of billion dollars in 1958, because we still remember the humiliation of Sputnik last October, next year we will be so preoccupied by color television, or new-style cars, or the beginning of another national election, that we will be unwilling to pay another year's installment on our space conquest bill. For that to happen well, I'd just as soon we didn't start.” PeopleKnowsYearsWellsStillsMightHappensLastsRememberNextSpacePayCarStyleTelevisionColorWillingCoupleFutureElectionBillsDollarsBillionsPredictionsHumiliationConquestNext YearUnwillingOctoberKnowledgeableAnother YearSputnikColor Television Author:Hugh Latimer Dryden
