Roger Launius

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Why Explore Space? A 1970 Letter to a Nun in Africa.

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Ernst Stuhlinger wrote this letter on May 6, 1970, to Sister Mary Jucunda, a nun who worked among the starving children of Kabwe, Zambia, in Africa, who questioned the value of space exploration. A…