Watchman | by Andrew Jolly | Volume 16, Issue 4 | July – August 2010
That man went to the Moon the in the 20th Century is slowly but surely becoming a byword of disappointment in the 21st. “If they could put a man on the moon, why can’t they … [insert current area of failure here].”
Despite its complexity, there was something straightforward about the post-war world, of which the success of the Apollo Space Missions seemed typical. Then US President John F Kennedy set his government the task of achieving nothing less than the conquest of Space and that ultimate “small step fo…
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