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We could not build such a cable today. But materials that could do the job have been produced, though so far only in microscopic quantities—as were the first samples of penicillin, and of plutonium. When anything is needed badly enough, man finds ways of making it.
Ten years ago, it was my privilege to write the epilogue to Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins' own account of their mission, First on the Moon. I would like to repeat now the closing words:'It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars."
— Arthur C. Clarke