“We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return …”

Exploration of Space (1952)
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Context: We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return … The coming of the rocket brought to an end a million years of isolation … the childhood of our race was over and history as we know it began.

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