Failed Prediction

I like this failed prediction just do to the sheer size and scope of the statement:

“To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth - all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne. I am bold enough to say that such a man-made voyage will never occur regardless of all future advances.” — Lee DeForest, American radio pioneer and inventor of the vacuum tube, in 1926

It only took 43 years to prove this false, when the US did it in 1969. But is this a failed prediction or is this a statement from a man outside of his field of expertise? Additional information can be found at: http://space.about.com/od/apollo11videos/Apollo_11_Videos_Videos_of_the_Apollo_11_Mission.htm