07/27/2019 03:26PM
American Moonshot: JFK and the Great Space Race
Douglas Brinkley
It's a big book and covers how we got there, From Goddard through JFK and Von Braun to Armstrong and Nixon
If like me you are a baby boomer, it will bring back memories forgotten, like standing in the front yard with neighbors when I was just short of 4 years old (my oldest retained memory) craning my neck looking into the blue sky of northern MN trying to get a glimpse of Sputnik. I had no idea what it was other than it looked like a star and the feeling I got from the adults that it was both important and somewhat frightening.
Or the memory as a schoolboy of how the world could end at any moment in a blink of an eye, and watching Project Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo live.
If you are not a baby boomer, this book might make you realize the issues facing the US today are miniscule, and sadly, our achievements as well.
let science, not politics decide, ... but whose science?