6. I _love_ that the program was named Apollo. Great throwback to the Greeks / an echo from the dawn of science. Pure poetry.
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What else is out there, similar to the Moon landing? (This is a genuine question; I'd love to hear ideas.) What might we achieve in the next 50–100 years that can be celebrated all at once?
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I don't think there's anything quite like getting to the Moon (although I'd love to be proven wrong). Nothing as symbolic and intuitive even to children. Certainly putting someone on Mars will be *awesome*. But it's just not as novel. We already took the low-hanging orb.
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So that's why I think the Moon landing was so exceptional. Not because it's a height of progress we won't see again, but because it was our biggest and best shot at a singular technological *performance*. And we nailed it :D
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I agree that it would be hard to replicate the single moment of the moon landing. But I also think that building a moonbase could have even more symbolic value to children. To look up at the moon, and know that at this very moment there are humans living on it? That’s powerful.
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One might say, getting to Alpha Centauri, but that, bar some unlikely new physics, wouldn't be a matter of weeks.
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Getting to Andromeda (Assuming light pollution gets fixed beforehand) would work - otherwise there is nothing in the sky remotely as easy to point to with a child and create wonder.
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