This chapter's epigraph comes from a famous speech by Dr. Bledsoe, the former head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. In this speech, Bledsey explains how he came up with the idea of using a fire-breathing rocket to launch a new generation of infectious disease vaccines. He argues that the rockets can be used not only to destroy the "red spider lily" , but also to "spread the vaccine" throughout the entire world.