It mattered then. It matters now.
A nation’s prestige has a great deal to do with its ability to shape world events.
Tagged: apollo program
Let’s send Joe Biden to the moon instead.
I love it when politicians invoke the (now receding) memory of the Apollo lunar landing missions to promote this or that grand idea that stands little chance of coming to pass.
NASA on the wane.
In 2010, President Obama promised that America would have a leadership role in space. Since then, he has effectively gutted NASA.