Tom Wolfe looks back...

[wombat_socho]

...to the Moon landing, which he sees as the beginning of the end for NASA and America's involvement in space. (Dan Collins)

As much as I respect Tom Wolfe, though, I think he's wrong. The philosophers who believed in the space program have always been out there, and they inspired many of the men and women who went to work for NASA, to say

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[chocol8fiend]

Loved the Tom Wolfe link

[wombat_socho]

Yeah, people tend to gloss over the socialist aspects of the Nixon Administration; everything gets overshadowed by Kissinger and Watergate.

It's a little depressing that the Chinese may beat us back to the Moon.