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But that is to miss the essential point. Though the space program has in fact returned the nation untold dividends in technological advancement—and jobs—that is not its rationale or its ultimate justification. Man is propelled from earth to moon by the same instincts that led him from cave to college: the lonely search for knowledge, the fascination of attacking the impregnable, the creative impulse, shared with Tennyson's Ulysses, "to seek a newer world ... to sail beyond the sunset, and the baths of all the western stars." The newer world opened up by the Men of the Year will surely, in time, reach far beyond the moon, but its radiance cannot fail to illumine life on planet earth.