Posted on 02/21/2005 8:16:43 PM PST by KevinDavis
Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.
— Christopher Columbus
We stand at the edge of a precipice looking up 400,000 kilometers to the Moon. It’s two light-seconds away, yet it might as well be 15 light-years away. No human missions to the Moon are planned until 2020 and none have been undertaken since 1972. This is not the legacy I was promised.
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