A confident, truly ‘great’ America doesn’t need to show off.https://medium.com/@david.brin/carefully-resist-the-parade-nonsense-confidence-speaks-louder-than-symbolism-5d27802f91a8 …
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It wasn't sold to politicians as that; that's what it was. It's why we haven't been back in over 45 years.
Well, the NASA engineers seemed to think it was a genuine first step to space exploration, while the politicians thought it was American PR. I guess the politicians were right, which is sad.
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The NASA engineers were mistaken. If that had been the goal, it would have been done much differently, and not in such an expensive rush. I wrote about that a year and a half ago. In terms of opening up space, Apollo was a magnificent disaster. https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/getting-over-apolloism …
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