A cultural requiem:
We’re not going back to the moon
Posted: November 15, 2009 at 3:34 a.m.
When almost the first word a child says, as she points to the night sky, is “moon,” you feel duty-bound to cultivate that interest, if not to start putting aside tuition money for Young Astronauts Camp. So on the 40th anniversary of the first Apollo landing, I was happy to watch, with my granddaughter Julia, age 9, NASA-channel films of the manned moon missions.
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