The Italian Space Program
An Italian scientist, Luigi, is visiting NASA. He announces to the staff and government officials there, "You Yankees and Russians think you so clever. One side put a man in space, the other side put a man on the moon. Well, I here to tell you all us Italians even smarter. We prove it. We intend to send man where he never been before. Forget about moon. We send a man to the sun!"
The NASA scientists exclaimed "That is impossible. You won't possibly be able to do it. The rocket will burn up millions of miles out and the astronaut. The sun is just too bright!"
Luigi replied, "You think us Italians silly? We have solved this problem. We send our astronaut up at night!"