M. Report
2010-08-21 17:54:24
I remember my pride as a young man in the Apollo program;
I remember, as an older and wiser man, my shame and disgust
at the loss of Challenger, and Columbia.
JFK was given three options for what became the Apollo program;
He chose the cheapest, which was intended to give him the political
propaganda victory of winning the ‘Moon Race’ against the USSR,
and then stop dead, with no follow-on, leaving NASA as a roadblock
to ensure that there would be no private enterprise exploitation
of space for profit.
The US has one last chance, _now_ , to reverse that policy, and
gain the financial, political, and _military_ advantages, or
wait for the Chinese to take over, permanently.
