We lost the space race


You just haven't been told yet
Forty years ago today, an American man walked on the moon.

We were told then and for decades afterwards that was a triumph of the RUGGED INDIVIDUALIST AMERICAN SPIRIT™ that could do anything.

They lied to us.

The moon landing really revealed the ORGANIZATION MAN and the triumph of the Great and Powerful State. The politicos would have used chimps if it would have sold enough newspapers.

It wasn't about pushing the boundaries of science and understanding, it was about scoring before the Soviets did.

Within a decade, there were no more moon landings.

In seventeen years, the Challenger disaster doomed the shuttle program.

There would be no moonbases, no massive space stations perched high in the sky.

There would be no space travel unless appropriately Blessed by the Government.

We lost the space race.

We focused on the score, on showing up the other players.

First to do this, first to proclaim that, and we never built anything that lasted.

So today, two generations after the U.S. government put a man on the moon, we're less ready than fifty years ago when Kennedy made his proclamation.

And Richard Nixon's signature is on the plaque we left to make our mark.

I want the spaceships. I want travel between Earth and Mars. I want to go to the moonbase for a weekend getaway. I want to look deep into beyond unhindered by atmosphere.

I WANT WHAT WAS PROMISED.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Mon - July 20, 2009 at 01:37 PM  Tag


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