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SPACE REVIEW EDITORIAL In 1492 Columbus discovered a new world after traveling thousands of miles across the great expanse of unknown waters called the Atlantic Ocean. It was a great adventure, yet one that was laughed at, ridiculed, and even spoke of as a ‘‘folly’’. Here was a small group of men searching for what lay beyond the known, endeavor- ing to unfold the mysteries of lands that were not supposed to exist. All they had were three small ships laden with provisions that they estimated would iast the journey. The seas were infested with monsters, so the skeptics said, and the world was flat with a dropping off place. Columbus proved these fallacies to be wront, when he landed in the West Indies. The years directly ahead of us will see amother great adventure such as this. A small group of men will assemble in a certain designated place, climb into their ship, a ship vastly different than that of Columbus's time. This ship will be a rocket shop, and its oc- cupants will shoot off into the vast sa of space to find new worlds, new peoples, and new frontiers. They will be laughed at, they wil! be ridiculed, and the whole thing will be called the greatest “folly on earth, but will # be such? Time has proven that impossibilities become realities, the automobile, the airplane, radio, telephone, telegraph, television, and the smashing of the atom are defimste proof. All is possible to one who believes,—and I am a sound believer! * FROM THE ASSOCIATE EDITOR'S DESK The mysteries of space have | ascinated most people on earth. One need not be ynomer to gaze in awe at th it which unfolds before the eyes as we gaze sky- any clear night. vastness of space is difhcult to explain, even for astronomers. When distances n of it is simpler for learned men to use the term “light years” than miles. The f celestial bodies suspended in space like our own earth are unknown. The we from millions on up, But they remain just that—guesses. who make our home on a mere cinder of matter in the eyes of space, cannot be gh to think that intelligent life exists only here. Those who believe that there for everything which happens, should agree that these millions of bodies in serve more of a purpose than just twinkling brightly on a clear night. Published quarterly by Albert K. Bender, Editor, Max Krengel, Associate Editor; Printed by Reliable Press, Bridgeport, Conn. Subscription Price: four issues, to members, $1.00; to non-members, $1.40 per year. Individual copies $.35. Exclusive publication of the IFSB, P.O. Box 241, Bridgeport 2, Conn., U.S.A Send all news and articles to this address.”