That Captain Armstrong showed the Right Stuff and landed the Eagle lunar module. So it is time to look back in awe at the folks who sent mankind to the moon using slide rules.
"We were much less risk averse. Now with the Challenger accident and the Columbia accident and some of the other things, we have become so risk averse that we don't dare do things," he said, adding: "The key is to take responsible risks."And here we are today, saying we're going back to the moon. It makes you wonder what the last 35years of promises were about. What exactly happened to us all in that time? Well, we won't go into that again today, but there you have it. The reason why we started to agitate on this page.
Randy Stone, deputy director of the Johnson Space Center, said many things made the Apollo era easier than today for space projects. "We were in the Cold War," he said. "We were in a technological race that most people believed we could not afford to lose.
"The naysayers didn't have as much influence," Stone said. "It was still hard to get money, but it wasn't near as hard as it is today."
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