“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.”
Quote by Hugh Latimer Dryden
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Hugh Latimer Dryden
American aviation science pioneer, born on July 2, 1898, and died on December 2, 1965. Dryden made significant contributions to the fields of aeronautical engineering and space exploration, particularly in rocket propulsion and aircraft design. more
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