I believe the Apollo program and the Moon landings was America at its peak(would have loved to have been around then).
Been all downhill from there.
The dream of rocketing Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid to the moon just became more unlikely.
When an engineer does a job perfectly, no one notices.
I wonder if he thought he’d live to see NASA turned into a hollow agency whose goal is “Muslim outreach”?
A less than glorious passing also today, is the late Hurricane Carter, a boxer. He died virtually alone in Toronto. Many believe he was a murderer. Not so in Canada.
RIP.
Lunar Orbit Rendezvous. As soon as I saw Houbolt’s name, I knew what he had done. That man deserved more praise than he got.
The moon landings happened so long ago that to most people under the age of about 50, they are in the same category of stagecoaches rumbling across the unsettled Plains back in the early 1800s. Even sadder, most young people have no desire whatsoever to return to the exploration of space. Instead, you get the tired liberal cliches like “we need to feed everybody on Earth before we send another rocket up into space.”
I remember seeing a documentary about the Apollo program not too long ago that included this guy’s story. He got into some serious bureaucratic trouble for going over heads to get his LOR concept into the discussion and was effectively exiled for a time before returning as a hero after Apollo 11.