The Eagle Has Landed
Posted by Daniel Greenfield
Monday, July 22, 2019Fifty years ago, a nation that we now know was racist, didn't care about the environment and drank too much soda, landed on the moon.
As the New York Times notes, its space program was less diverse than that of the USSR, which never did make it to the moon, but excelled at sending dogs to die in space.
Half-a-billion television viewers watched it happen live. They saw men walk on the surface of another world. They saw that human beings could break free of their world and take a first step into the rest of the universe.
And that was that.
Neil Armstrong died about the time that Obama finished gutting NASA. He lived long enough to write a saddened letter about the decline of American space exploration under Obama that everyone in the media did their best not to pay attention to. The letter was also signed by Eugene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon.
Eugene Cernan is now 82.
No one who was born after 1935 has walked on the moon.
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