[ExI] The Man Who Wanted Stars (Dan McLaughlin, 1965)

[Bryan Bishop]

A small book that I picked up the other day in my Half Price Books 
index-browsing session. Here's what the cover and excerpt writes:

One man on all Earth sill believed in spaceflight. One man knew the 
burning urgency of mankind's next great step into the unknown. It had a 
fine beginning. The ships had gone out -- to the moon first, and then 
to Mars, Venus, and Mercury. And Murchison ventured into the asteroids, 
and Quintero dared the sun's flaming atmosphere. Men -- all heroes -- 
ranged the new frontier. But then the politicians killed it. They 
dragged home the venturous ones -- the ones who dared -- and took away 
from them Man's most challenging frontier. But it would come back. It 
had to come back. Even if Joe Webber had to build the rockets with his 
own bare hands. Even if he had to snatch men off the streets, and seal 
them in the rockets, and shoot them off at the stars. The high, cold 
stars.

*Unfortunately* those are the best lines out of the entire book. But 
still an interesting meme to pass along.

- Bryan
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Bryan Bishop
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