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Electronics Research Centre, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Flight Research Centre, Edwards, California. Goddard Space Flight Centre, Greenbelt, MD. Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. John F. Kennedy Space Centre, Florida. Langley Research Centre, Hampton, VA. Lewis Research Centre, Cleveland, Ohio. Manned Spacekraft Centre, Houston, Texas. Nuclear Rocket Development Station, Jackass Flats. Pacific Launch Operations Office, Lompoc, California. Wallops Station, Wallops Island, VA. Western Operations Office, Santa Monica, California. NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC. The space-ship industry has long overtaken the automobile industry as a pace-setter in the market. On 1 July, 1967, 22,828 people were working at the Cape Kennedy Space Centre; the annual budget for this station alone amounted to 475,784,000 dollars in 1967! All that because a few crazy people want to go to the moon? I think I have already given sufficient convincing examples of what we owe research into space travel today (and these only as by-products), ranging from objects in everyday use to complicated medical apparatus which save people's lives every hour of the day all over the world. The super-technology in the course of development is truly no scourge of mankind. It is carrying mankind into the future which begins anew daily with seven- leagued boots. this book: I consider is extremely probable that not only plant and animal life, but also intelligent living creatures exist in the infinite reaches of the universe. The discovery of such life is a most fascinating and interesting task, but considering the enormous distances between our own and other solar systems’ and the still greater distances between our galaxy and other galactic systems, it is doubtful whether we shall succeed in proving the existence of such forms of life or getting into direct communication with them.’ Huntsville is one of the many NASA centres. The reader should note them because later they may become the departure stations for space flights: Army Research Centre, Moffet Field, California. The author had a chance to ask Wernher von Braun for his opinion of the hypotheses put forward in 'Dr Von Braun, do you consider it possible that we shall find life on other planets in our solar system?’ I consider it possible that we shall come across lower forms of life on the planet Mars.' ‘Do you consider it possible that we are not the only intelligences in the universe?’