Key Address on Education in the Space Age

In studying the theme of your conference, I was struck by two things. One was its euphony --- The Challenging Pace of the Race to Space . The other was the arrangement of words or, more specifically, use of the descriptive term race and the position of the adjective challenging . Race has connotations of active competition between spirited contestants over a measured course. Compounded breakthroughs resemble Leacock\u27s legendary horseman who mounted his steed and rode off in all directions simultaneously. This is almost -literally what has happened. Findings in one field have been applied to others with the result that the world as we knew it only a few short years ago is vastly different from the world of today