sovay: (Psholtii: in a bad mood)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2007-10-18 07:21 pm

That's not my department!

I cannot believe this statement is true:

Michael J. Neufeld, the author of "Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War" (Knopf; $35), acknowledges that "hardly anyone under age forty" knows his subject's name, even though America's moon shots owed a large measure of their success to him.
—Thomas Mallon, "Rocket Man: The Complex Orbits of Wernher von Braun."

If nothing else, doesn't anyone still listen to Tom Lehrer?

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