Lost Moon
"I look up at the moon and wonder: 'When will we be going back, and who will that be?'"
Did you ever think for a minute that when Eugene Cernan stepped off of the lunar surface for the last time on December 17, 1972....making him the last man to walk on the face of the moon...that he and all of the astronauts that came before him wouldn't live to see another moon walk?
Me neither. But, alas, it will almost certainly be so.
UPDATE: Just because everyone should know who is on this list....
ASTRONAUTS WHO HAVE WALKED ON THE MOON
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin - Apollo 11 - July 21, 1969
Pete Conrad* and Alan Bean - Apollo 12 - November 19-20, 1969
Alan Shepard* and Edgar Mitchell - Apollo 14 - February 5-6, 1971
David Scott and James Irwin* - Apollo 15 - July 31-August 2, 1971
John W. Young and Charles Duke - Apollo 16 - April 21-23, 1972
Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt - Apollo 17 - December 14, 1972
* Deceased
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin - Apollo 11 - July 21, 1969
Pete Conrad* and Alan Bean - Apollo 12 - November 19-20, 1969
Alan Shepard* and Edgar Mitchell - Apollo 14 - February 5-6, 1971
David Scott and James Irwin* - Apollo 15 - July 31-August 2, 1971
John W. Young and Charles Duke - Apollo 16 - April 21-23, 1972
Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt - Apollo 17 - December 14, 1972
* Deceased
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Space exploration is the stuff of a confident and vital nation, not one run by statists.
It's expensive, though--Apollo cost an amazing percent of the government's budget. But then the government was a good deal smaller.
Here's where my cynicism comes in.
Another man on the moon is a magnificent thought. It makes the heart soar, and it makes me think of phrases like "makes the heart soar." But that might overshadow the administrative state which we are headed for, and its head administrator, Barack Hussein Obama.
And here we have NASA, being killed from the inside.
Mr. Obama has suggested that private enterprise pick up the slack, which would be a wonderful idea, if he didn't hate all private enterprise.
No, this is to kill another American dream, another American glory, because Obama doesn't feel big enough unless others are small.
As Gore Vidal said, "It is not enough to succeed. You must see your friends fail."