Chapter 8

1 John F. Kennedy, Text of speech delivered at Rice Stadium, Houston, Texas, September 12, 1962, available at http://vesuvius.jsc.nasa.gov.

2 Ibid.

3 For more on the bizarre career and life of Parsons, see George Pendle, Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons (Orlando, Florida: Harcourt, Inc., 2005).

4 www.sti.nasa.gov/tto.

5 Mark Tatge, "As A Grocer, Wal-Mart Is No Category Killer," Forbes.com, June 30, 2003.