Return to the Moon

Published: Aug. 3, 2019, 2 a.m.

b"Phil and Stephen review the legacy of the first moon landing. We\\u2019re now as far in time from the moon landing as that event\\xa0 was from the end of World War I.\\n\\nWhat does it mean to live in a world where the moon landing is (practically) ancient history?\\n\\nWhy is the moon landing still important?\\n\\nWriting for the L.A. Times,\\xa0 Ayn Rand had the following to say about Apollo 11:\\n\\nThat we had seen a demonstration of man at his best, no one could doubt \\u2014 this was the cause of the event\\u2019s attraction and of the stunned, numbed state in which it left us. And no one could doubt that we had seen an achievement of man in his capacity as a rational being \\u2014 an achievement of reason, of logic, of mathematics, of total dedication to the absolutism of reality. How many people would connect these two facts, I do not know. https://bit.ly/2K3z2of\\n\\nDid landing on the moon bring us into another reality?\\n\\n\\xa0Which leads us to this headline:\\n\\nElon Musk says SpaceX could land on the moon in 2 years. A NASA executive says 'we'll partner with them, and we'll get there faster' if the company can pull it off.\\n\\nhttps://bit.ly/2Gvs22B\\n\\nThe SLS isn\\u2019t even scheduled to fly until 2021. Musk says he could have us on the moon in that period of time. Even if he\\u2019s blowing smoke, who would bet that NASA on its own could get there\\xa0faster?\\n\\nWT 491-816\\n\\nEternity Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) | Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0"