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...Cried Secretary Leonard Carter of the British Interplanetary Society: "We believe the first flight to the moon will take place within the next 20 years and that Professor Woolley will live to see it ... Future Astronomers Royal will spend most of their time in space observatories and not in Hurstmonceux [home of the Royal Greenwich Observatory]." Added Interplanetary Society Council Member Kenneth Gatland: "Space travel is inevitable . . . Toward the end of the century we will get manned vehicles which will orbit the moon, and right at the end ... we will get actual landings." Confessed one of Woolley's fellow...
Traditionalists among them had little need to mourn. The observatory's new home will be older than its old one: Hurstmonceux (pronounced herst-mon-syoo) Castle in Sussex, built in 1446. From its grounds new and old telescopes will observe the smokeless...
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