Xref: utzoo sci.space:14218 sci.space.shuttle:3686 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!amdahl!nsc!taux01!amos From: amos@taux01.UUCP (Amos Shapir) Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: space news from Aug 14 AW&ST Summary: Who is D.D. Harriman Message-ID: <2651@taux01.UUCP> Date: 27 Sep 89 16:05:00 GMT References: <1989Sep25.014005.1837@utzoo.uucp> <1394@syma.sussex.ac.uk> Organization: National Semiconductor (IC) Ltd, Israel Home of the 32532 Lines: 17 Hdate: 27 Elul 5749 In article <1394@syma.sussex.ac.uk> nickw@syma.susx.ac.uk (Nick Watkins) writes: > >OK. So I'm ignorant. Who is D.D. Harriman? He's the lead character in Heinlein's story "The man who sold the Moon". A quote: "The moon rocket is gone. Even the shuttle is gone. We are back to where we were in 1950. Therefore, we must build a new rocket and fly it to the moon!" The story was written, BTW, in *1949* (that's right, forty-nine, not eighty-six) -- Amos Shapir amos@taux01.nsc.com or amos@nsc.nsc.com National Semiconductor (Israel) P.O.B. 3007, Herzlia 46104, Israel Tel. +972 52 522261 TWX: 33691, fax: +972-52-558322 34 48 E / 32 10 N (My other cpu is a NS32532)