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Millions of people have looked to the moon for tens of thousands of years, and wondered if someday, a human being might walk on it. A truly transcendent catego
by pryce 7y ago
Millions of people have looked to the moon for tens of thousands of years, and wondered if someday, a human being might walk on it.
A truly transcendent category of goal, even if a large part of the underlying motive was pretty obviously demonstrating American superiority over the Communist 'other'.
I don't really put retrieving the 'Snoopy' module in this same category.
- saagarjha 7y agoI think you may have missed the joke.
- pryce 7y agoI did, thanks. EDIT: for anyone interested in the history of the Apollo 10 mission, its commander (and only crew-member remaining living) Thomas Stafford also went to Moscow to serve as a pallbearer in the state funeral given to the Soyuz 11 crew after the tragedy, the only human beings known to have died in space.