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In reply to the discussion: My wife and I saw Apollo 11 yesterday. [View all]Tommy_Carcetti
(43,145 posts)13. I had that feeling while touring Kennedy Space Center this summer.
Watching old footage of JFK announcing the start of the space race, and marveling in the achievement of all the astronauts around me, I became rather depressed that from that proudful moment we now lived in a country run by Donald Fucking Trump.
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Of course there's been a lot of great scientific endeavour the last 50 years.
Dave Starsky
Mar 2019
#44
Because Aldrin had a notorious reputation for being what some would consider a jerk
Docreed2003
Mar 2019
#33