Florida, We Have a Problem
By GAIL COLLINS
NYT
The Obama administration’s proposed budget holds many surprises.
O.K., you have to be kind of dorky to make that statement.
Still, how can you not be fascinated when the White House announces it wants to cancel plans to put an American on the moon by 2020?
Weren’t we already there? I have a distinct memory of watching a guy who looked a little like the Pillsbury Doughboy, planting an American flag in moon dirt back in 1969. The TV was black and white. Walter Cronkite was so excited.
And didn’t George W. Bush promise to get us to Mars? Well, the first step to Mars is apparently moon-visitation. NASA now admits the best-case scenario for that is actually 2030.
(More here.)
NYT
The Obama administration’s proposed budget holds many surprises.
O.K., you have to be kind of dorky to make that statement.
Still, how can you not be fascinated when the White House announces it wants to cancel plans to put an American on the moon by 2020?
Weren’t we already there? I have a distinct memory of watching a guy who looked a little like the Pillsbury Doughboy, planting an American flag in moon dirt back in 1969. The TV was black and white. Walter Cronkite was so excited.
And didn’t George W. Bush promise to get us to Mars? Well, the first step to Mars is apparently moon-visitation. NASA now admits the best-case scenario for that is actually 2030.
(More here.)
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