John Steinbeck's 1966 Plea To Create A NASA For The Oceans

ROV Deep Discoverer NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program, Gulf of Mexico 2014 Expedition Three years before the first humans landed on the moon, Nobel-prize winning author John Steinbeck published a passionate plea in Popular Science for equal efforts to explore "inner space." In an open letter to editor-in-chief Ernest Heyn, Steinbeck argued that the investigation of Earth's oceans was critical to the success of humanity and deserved the same funding and organization as space exploration. You can read...