When the Moon rises tonight, I will inevitably find myself pondering the anniversary. Forty years ago today, Man landed on the Moon for the first time.
It was the culmination of our greatest adventure, it is arguably our greatest achievement to date, and it is absolutely worthy of celebration.
But I'm sure I will also consider one other thing: We don't go there any more.
It's not that we don't have the technology; we just use it for sending text messages (LOL). It's not that we don't have the money - our money is essentially virtual these days anyway (and besides, there are massive side benefits to all the R&D that would be involved). Basically, we don't have the will. The reason we choose not to do these things is precisely the reason JFK gave for doing them in the first place: "because they are hard."
Seriously, we should go.
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