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Space Technology:
"means of housing and servicing men (or women or both) anywhere in Universe which means under vastly more difficult conditions than on Earth and, because of the superman requirements of the service, at a higher standard of satisfaction of living fundamentals than any men have ever known.
"Tents won’t do in airless space. If you spit in space the spit goes into orbit and you retro-orbit. There is no sewer system in space. There is no gravity to pull matter down the drain. There are no water supply lines, no electric wires, no supermarkets. Because of the completely unearthly conditions within which our men at the new space front have to operate, science has now been invoked for the first time in history to ‘enshrine living man.’ That is the surprise!
“Science has always been a complex of independent and subjective economic slave disciplines, primarily concerned with the harvesting of information, rather than with the practical application of that information. To provide the unearthly sky dwelling for our celestial fire-power soldiers, science has at last been brought to bear objectively and”
