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Anonymouse · 24-02-2024, 02:36

We've heard this before. We've heard complaints that Apollo didn't pay its way. Cobblers. Electronics, ultrasound, weather warnings, CAT scans, satellites, we owe them all to Apollo - and for a cost so relatively small the average American didn't even feel it. They only failed to realise that because NASA has the worst public relations service you've ever heard of. Teddy Sanders had it right: "Every time something goes wrong, the world forgets why we fly." True. We do.
But like Carol Danvers, every time we fall down, we damn well get back up again. Apollo 1 didn't stop us. Nor did Apollo 13. Or Challenger. Or Columbia. Tragedies all, but they didn't stop us.
True, we need better trains. Hoo boy, do we. Buses, ditto. But they may well come as a result of space discoveries. At least I hope so.
I can testify that the 582 is a terrible bus service.

24-02-2024, 02:36	#4
Anonymouse RIP Tigger - 12 years?! Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Bolton Age: 58 Services: EE Superfast Broadband Posts: 1,434	Re: First commercial Moon mission marks new era for space travel We've heard this before. We've heard complaints that Apollo didn't pay its way. Cobblers. Electronics, ultrasound, weather warnings, CAT scans, satellites, we owe them all to Apollo - and for a cost so relatively small the average American didn't even feel it. They only failed to realise that because NASA has the worst public relations service you've ever heard of. Teddy Sanders had it right: "Every time something goes wrong, the world forgets why we fly." True. We do. But like Carol Danvers, every time we fall down, we damn well get back up again. Apollo 1 didn't stop us. Nor did Apollo 13. Or Challenger. Or Columbia. Tragedies all, but they didn't stop us. True, we need better trains. Hoo boy, do we. Buses, ditto. But they may well come as a result of space discoveries. At least I hope so. I can testify that the 582 is a terrible bus service. __________________ "People tend to confuse the words 'new' and 'improved'." - Agent Phil Coulson, S.H.I.E.L.D.