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Only very distant generations will live to see the execution of this gigantic project. For although such plans can be speeded up by modern technological development, we must allow a considerable period of time for the evolution of the new world. At present scientists talk of 1,000 years before the first Technology pampers us. On 20 July, 1969, at 0300 hours, 56 minutes 20 seconds Central European Time, hundreds of millions of people saw the two astronauts Neil Alden Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin become the first men to set foot on the moon. This was the most magnificent achievement in space travel to date and it fascinated and astonished humanity all over the globe. But even while man was following the breathtaking flight to the moon, science was already occupied with exploratory flights to Mars and Venus, and even with a vast human migration to earth's sister planet. Just as the conquest of the moon began with unmanned satellites, Venus is now being investigated with unmanned sondes. On 18 May, 1969, Moscow reported that after a flight lasting 130 days the Venus sonde 5 had ended the journey of 156,250,000 miles with a payload of 2,260 lb. When the sonde was still 31,250 miles from Venus, the ground station radioed the last command. Then the sonde sent down Erich von Daniken in front of the Temple of the Inscriptions at Palenque (Mexico) Deep down in the interior of this pyramid is the tombstone of the god Kukulkan at the controls of his rocket. evacuation space-ship can travel to Venus. a capsule full of instruments by parachute. TASS stated that the parachute drop lasted 53 minutes.