Man will reach the planets. There is no longer any doubt of this. When it will happen is yet unknown, but of those now at work on the venture, there are some who are almost certain to see its achievement during their lifetimes.
The planets of our Solar System offer little hope for finding forms of life as highly developed and with the intelligence of Man. There may be no life of any significance whatever, except that which is present on Earth. But there are other suns—as many as two billion, perhaps—in our own galaxy, and the galaxies themselves are innumerable. Somewhere in the Universe, out there in Deep Space, there are certainly other lives and other civilizations as high as Man’s.
Or higher.
Earth is a young world as events in civilization go. Man is a newborn infant when his time
