Posted by
EWRoss on Monday, August 17, 2009 8:00:00 AM
It’s
been 48 years since May 25, 1961, when President John F. Kennedy, speaking
before a joint session of Congress said, “I believe that this nation should
commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a
man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.” It’s been nearly 38
years since Apollo 17, the
last Moon landing. The US
has accomplished a great deal in space since then. Nevertheless, many of us who
watched live broadcasts of President Kennedy’s speech and Americans walking on
the Moon, and were excited and inspired by those events, are disappointed that
we haven’t gone further, much less back to the Moon. Are we 'lost in space,'
perpetually going around in circles in orbit above the Earth?
Read
my column at http://ewross.com/Lost_in_Space.htm