Rod Pyle > Quotes

“There the crew would reside, either strapped into reclining metal chairs or with magnetic boots clanking around on a metal gridwork floor, nicely warmed by all the heat-generating vacuum-tube electronics necessary for the primitive computers, radios, and other necessary equipment.”
― Rod Pyle, Amazing Stories of the Space Age

“The clouds that shroud the planet are sopping with sulfuric acid, and the temperature at its surface is over 800°F. The terrain looks like a shale-covered desert lit by lightning storms and drenched with acid rain.”
― Rod Pyle, Amazing Stories of the Space Age

“Besides convincing readers of The Mars Project that such an undertaking was possible, it also attracted a major magazine to do a splashy series of articles based on von Braun's ideas, and brought him to the attention of Walt Disney, who engaged von Braun to work with his studio on a series of extremely popular TV shows and educational films about spaceflight (see chapter 6).”
― Rod Pyle, Amazing Stories of the Space Age

“The budget for this undertaking was estimated at about $6 billion. Since the Apollo program, which was a vastly less complex and smaller undertaking, cost over $20 billion by the time it was complete,15 it's clear that the scope of development costs for Horizon were vastly underestimated.”
― Rod Pyle, Amazing Stories of the Space Age

“The Saturn rockets would have been flying at a rate of 5.3 per month during the buildup phase, for a total of 149 rocket launches, moving 245 tons of cargo and machinery into space.”
― Rod Pyle, Amazing Stories of the Space Age

“The surface is an endless expanse of shattered gray rock, the skies a blank slate of permanent cloud cover, with a year-round temperature of about 900°F. Not only would your mai tai evaporate instantly, but if you had reason to bring along a block of lead, you could watch it slowly melt into the parched surface. Not that you'd live long enough to.”
― Rod Pyle, Amazing Stories of the Space Age