"ae1" - читать интересную книгу автора (Steele Allen)

1. Title.
PS3569.T338425T73 1996
813'.54-dc2O

Printed in the United States of America

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 21

95-21056
CIP






In memory of Dot Hill

Icters are
s or enti-
tiou,, cir-
iened.
052 by
Used by

1959 by
ric.












F

The space station, with all its potentialities for exploration of the
universe, for all kinds of scientific progress, for the preservation of
peace or for the destruction of civilization, can be built. When the
decision has been reached and the funds have been appropriated, the
rest is only a matter of time. Many factors make the station inevita-
ble-not the least the insatiable curiosity that has sent man across
the oceans and finally into the air. Perhaps the military reasons for
building such a station are in the long run the least significant, but
in the existing state of the world they are the most urgent. Unless a