The race to the moon galvanized a nation in turmoil. Can we do it again? Space travelers Charlie Duke, Michael Collins, Al Worden and Russell Schweickart talk about their historic missions.
It was partly a race with the Soviets, but more than anything else for me, it was doing something that was clearly right in terms of human destiny. It was clear we had to go to the Moon. It was a very logical step. There was the race to the Moon, but we, frankly, a number of us at least, would cheer when the Soviets would do another thing because it would incentivize our leadership and our managers to be a little less risk averse than they would've been.
has a large responsibility and will continue to have one, as will other national space programs. But government programs have a way of, over time, becoming ossified and risk averse. Whereas, the new entrants coming in are very, very innovative. They're competing with one another, they've got all kinds of great ideas, and, you know, we see that in the form of Elon Musk and SpaceX with the first stage landing and being used multiple times.
annual budget, and to international cooperation, and to enhancing, or supporting imaginative, deep exploration arises out of that deep recognition, that's what I hope. At the same time, what we see every day in the newspapers, and on Twitter and everywhere else, is the BS, the froth, the bubbles, the bickering, and all the rest of it. But, I hope underneath that there's a bit of a deeper understanding of our responsibility to the future.
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