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Space Technology:
"space, we have to scientifically anticipate and effectively service all his processes and psychological reflex requirements. In order to be able to do that we are, in effect, building a little house-- a little space house. We had been using the word ‘capsule,’ which has hidden from the fact that what science is really working on is a little house; not much room to move around in, no garden of roses outside, but nonetheless, a little house with a six billion dollar mortgage.
“In this strange battle of man to anticipate offensive-defensive weaponry battles in the cold warring, the battle to attain the moon, or protracted living upon a platform in space, has brought about a race in capital funding initiatives between Russia and the United States specifically in relation to this little house, amounting to six billion dollars. This staggering amount is now appropriated to hire scientists to go to work to design and produce one little sky house, the first scientific human dwelling in history. It must be capable of sustaining man as a metabolic success anywhere in Universe. It won’t be a very charming little house. It won’t be ‘good architecture’ by the traditional a-la-mode”
¶ Citations
- MEXICO '63, p.11, 10 Oct '63
