“One immediate effect of the news from Mariner 2 was that America lost all interest in Venus.... In startling contrast, the Soviet focus on Venus intensified ... the message from the Central Committee was clear: the Soviet space establishment was to focus the attention of its nascent unmanned space program on this nearby, bright planet that glimmers so temptingly in the evening sky, with the goal of landing a probe on it. Such an order was nothing if not audacious for, at this time in the early 1960s, no one had even landed a probe on the moon.”

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1. 1. rhbscpv 12:29 AM 12/3/07

   There is no doubt the accomplishment is hugh. Only persons of charactor achieve such deeds. And though these just monents will be, in the cosmic movement (time ) enveloping life, citizens need causing the seed growing, baring equally just fruit, and nurishing life. Then worth of the gift or/and oppertunity is erned. Yet today we have the same situtation with less stable participants. Profit is continuing under the guise of idealism, fear and ignorance. Surely those who have sought and gained means of controlling human developement ( builderburgers, illuminati, etc. ) could nurture societies away from such polarization. Do we need partitioning? Lack of stuartship and leadership seems prevalent despite the luminosity of paterns of demise and knowledge that history repeats itself. Failure, history will see, is caused by greed.

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