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Richard van der Riet Woolley Biography

Sir Richard van der Riet Woolley OBE FRS (24 April 1906 – 24 December 1986) was an English astronomer who became Astronomer Royal. His mother's maiden name was Van der Riet.

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Space travel is utter bilge. I don't think anybody will ever put up enough money to do such a thing. . . . It is all rather rot.

Future, Space, Thing, Think, Thinking

The whole procedure [of shooting rockets into space]. . . presents difficulties of so fundamental a nature, that we are forced to dismiss the notion as essentially impracticable, in spite of the author's insistent appeal to put aside prejudice and to recollect the supposed impossibility of heavier-than-air flight before it was actually accomplished. An analogy such as this may be misleading, and we believe it to be so in this case.

Believe, Future, Misleading, Rockets, Space, Whole

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