"Man will never reach the Moon, regardless of all future scientific advances."
"To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth - all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne. I am bold enough to say that such a man-made voyage will never occur regardless of all future advances."
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Source: De Forest Says Space Travel Is Impossible. Lewiston Morning Tribune Newspaper, February 25, 1957.
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