[Monkey Face]

I was amazed and excited, but calm enough to realize that you have touched on something similar on getting the Flying Castle airborne.

I was born 40 years too soon, I think. I coulda been a contendah!

Thanks for finding that. What a treasure!

[NicknamedBob]

"I was amazed and excited, but calm enough to realize that you have touched on something similar on getting the Flying Castle airborne."

I realized, when we were sitting on Loch Ness, that to go into space would require a really special effort.

As you'll recall, the first step was acquiring the Thrust Ring. (Thanks, Norway!)

That would be needed to equalize the forces as three, count them, three Habitats were lifted into orbit so that they could rotate for artificial gravity.

All the rest followed: In a closed environment, we couldn't run internal combustion engines for tractors and delivery vehicles. Thus was born the modified transportation system of spherical elevator cars and tubular connections.

And the energy requirements for launch dictated nuclear rockets, so the first thing to do was to gather the necessary U-know-what!

As I said, it all follows from the first visions. Does anyone remember whose bright idea it was to go into space in the first place?