113- Mars Is Heaven

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as Ray Bradbury tells it in his famous science fiction story Mars is heaven Project is magnificent, overwhelming and tremendous. We return you now to the scene of the takeoff in the desert of New Mexico.

Go ahead New Mexico. Thank you London. This is Stuart Novins back in New Mexico. I'm standing here on the great steel observation platform overlooking the takeoff stand. As the moment for departure draws nearer, the whole area has been flooded with artificial light.

It bathes a spaceship and a kind of silver luminescence and surrounding it and golfing it. Belfing it, this subdued hysteria of hundreds of thousands of people come to see the start of this incredible voyage of eighteen men in the rocket ship The Venture.

It's standing there pointing upward, pointing toward the heavens, and in a few minutes it will bloom out into great flowers of heat and color, shocked into space, on man's first voyage to Mars. As you know ladies and gentlemen, prayers are being said for these eighteen men in their ship.

The first men, the first ship to dare the voyage to another planet. There's a being said by every creed in mosques and churches and synagogues the world over. We take you now to the Basilica of St. Paul's in Rome.