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As LUNGS NEED AIR, SO THE U. S. ECONOMY NEEDS LATIN AMERICAN MINERALS
In June 1969, when the astronauts had put the first human footprints on the moon, the father of that achievement, Werner von Braun, announced to the press a U. S. plan for a remote space station with functions that were less remote: he heralded an observation platform from which we will be able to examine all the wealth of the earth, including unknown petroleum, copper, and zinc deposits.