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This is a bit science fiction turning to fact. You don’t see that much on a major technical achievement in human history on this scale and so fast.

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This is a bit science fiction turning to fact.

Indeed. In 1953, Werner von Braun predicted in a novel that a ruler called the Elon would lead the human colonization of Mars.

And how things change. In the headlines, Werner von Braun isn't the guy who put us on the moon or the guy who launched Hitler's rockets on London, but just a "German scientist."