This message comes from a Pt mailing list. I found the conclusion so well written that I want to share with you. I hope nothing is lost in the translation. [Rubens Alves] >> The development of jet airplanes has no correlation >> with the development of rockets. The proof of this >> is that jet airplanes exist since WW2, but space >> rockets only appeared after the end of the war [Ricardo Bragan�a] > Rockets with the potential to get outside Earth's > atmosphere exist since WW2, because they > had the purpose of carrying the V2. But they didn't > have enough time to use them as they expected. > Their original purpose was not sending Men to > the Moon, but sending Men to Hell > translation by Alberto Monteiro
