I was a 6-year-old kid when I got to see Apollo 16 blast off standing on the top of a Buick station wagon. It was the most literally awesome experience of my life.
I still feel like a little kid when I look at that photo!
It’s too bad that the American public grew bored of space so quickly. Now, shaving a millimeter off the thickness of a cellphone or an algorithm that addicts our kids to social media are what people think of as “technology“.
Yeah! It is awesome to see that we're doing this again now with SpaceX. If we actually do go to Mars, that will be amazing. The last boots on the moon were in 1972, 13 years before I was born, so there's been nothing like it in my lifetime, and I can't understand why.
It seems like the entire world was inspired and obsessed for a generation, then... got bored, like you said. A lot of kids my age don't remember much about the Shuttle program except that people died in the Challenger disaster in 1986. So our strongest memory involves death and failure, not success and amazement.
Good point! Our successes in space were a result of the GI Bill and the push to graduate science and engineering majors to counter the Soviets. Government can get things done if they try, but not institutions that grow decrepit. That’s why Space X is so promising!
Bravo!
I was a 6-year-old kid when I got to see Apollo 16 blast off standing on the top of a Buick station wagon. It was the most literally awesome experience of my life.
I still feel like a little kid when I look at that photo!
It’s too bad that the American public grew bored of space so quickly. Now, shaving a millimeter off the thickness of a cellphone or an algorithm that addicts our kids to social media are what people think of as “technology“.
Yeah! It is awesome to see that we're doing this again now with SpaceX. If we actually do go to Mars, that will be amazing. The last boots on the moon were in 1972, 13 years before I was born, so there's been nothing like it in my lifetime, and I can't understand why.
It seems like the entire world was inspired and obsessed for a generation, then... got bored, like you said. A lot of kids my age don't remember much about the Shuttle program except that people died in the Challenger disaster in 1986. So our strongest memory involves death and failure, not success and amazement.
Good point! Our successes in space were a result of the GI Bill and the push to graduate science and engineering majors to counter the Soviets. Government can get things done if they try, but not institutions that grow decrepit. That’s why Space X is so promising!
“We choose to go to Mars...” -Kennedy in 2025, probably