America's Finest Moment, 48 Years Ago

[Doug the Dem]

Will we ever rise as high again?

[jimlup]

1. Thanks - Wonderful video

I remember as a kid hearing people say that we wouldn't go back to the moon for fifty years. As an optimistic kid I dismissed it as pessimism. Now I see that it was true.

I just hope we are able to return, perhaps as an international mission, during the 2020's. In my opinion, humanity needs a moon base.

[riversedge]

2. Great way to start the day. Thanks for posting

[LongTomH]

3. It's been nearly half a century now. The Apollo 11 landing was our proudest moment.

Author Frank White pointed out, during The Time of Apollo, America was admired almost everywhere in the world.

[Nitram]

4. As an American, I am proud of the landing. But, I would harldly call it...

"our finest moment." C'mon, what about the Marshall Plan, invention of the polio vaccine, Brown Vs Education and the passage of the Civil Rights bill, the Declaration of Independence (kicking a King and his powerful army and navy to the wall and making our own country), the constitution (the first attempt to start a democracy from scratch), and, dare I suggest it, the election of Barack Obama as the first African-American president in what was once a slave-holding nation.

[tomhagen]

5. The next man on the Moon....will be Chinese. Coming soon.