Neil Armstrong, Ted Kennedy, and the National Turning Away

[DavidDvorkin]

The death of the first man on the moon naturally elicits thoughts of the death of the American manned spaceflight program.

I was part of the Apollo project. I worked at NASA/Houston on the Apollo missions, from the start through Apollo 15. When I arrived there in 1967, the excitement was fresh and the future was wonderful. But by the time I left, it was clear that America had decided to abandon manned spaceflight.

http://eyeblister.blogspot.com/2012/08/neil-armstrong-ted-kennedy-and-national.html

[a geek named Bob]

1. On the other hand...

There's a whole lot of folks interested in space...

And we're comparing notes.

[DavidDvorkin]

2. Advancing technology should, in theory,

keep opening space up, at least for unmanned missions. But at this point, we still need huge government programs for manned spaceflight.

If we had kept up the momentum of Apollo, imagine where we'd be now.

[a geek named Bob]

3. hmmm

it only took one breakthrough group (the wright brothers) to get the ball rolling...

Sounds like we need a good ship, and a great PR team.

[choie]

4. An excellent blog post n/t

[DavidDvorkin]

5. Thanks, choie.