Why we need space travel

摘要

The seasoned army officer slapped me on the back. "So it's scientists like you who made this possible," he thundered. "And we always called you sissies."rnWe were in the officers' club', a bare room with a lousy television set, in a small bar-rnracks in the Italian Alps. It was the early hours of 21 July 1969. This captain of the Alpini - an elite Italian mountain infantry corps - and I were watching the fuzzy, black and white images of the Apollo 11 Moon landing thanks to rickety reception from an ice-axe doubling as an antenna on the roof.