(*Year of our Moon Landing)
40 years ago today, a human first set foot on the moon.
Between the time President Kennedy proposed going to the moon, and the first landing, less than nine years elapsed.
Now NASA is proposing to go back to the moon, and if all goes well, we could be back there by 2020.
Hello? It takes longer to repeat what we already did than it took to do it in the first place?
I take this as a sign of how bloated, regulation-ridden and less nimble the government has become in the last 50 years. Nothing as important as the exploration and exploitation of space should be left in their hands. If they want to encourage it to happen, they should establish a prize for it. Someone will figure out a way to get that prize, and make money on the project besides.
Andre Guirard | 20 July 2009 09:06:43 AM ET | Home, Plymouth, MN, USA | Comments (4)
