R is for Rocket

I can only imagine what it must have been like growing up in the forties and fifties - particularly in America - with the anticipation and excitement of rockets blasting into space, the great unknown with infinite possibilities.

I am only half way through this collection of stories, but they are a real treat. I just wish I could have experienced these stories as 12 year old boy during this time.

This Preface is probably one of the most moving I have read in a while. Perhaps I missed this when I was growing up, but with 2 young boys of my own I can watch in wonder as they discover Rockets and Space and Planets for the first time, and maybe, just maybe Life outside our own.