It is 40 years since the words, ‘The Eagle has landed,’ sent a thrill around the world. The Apollo moon missions were to herald a new dawn of space exploration, of lunar bases, manned missions to Mars, and more. But in the decades since – and after the Shuttle disasters – America’s appetite for interplanetary flight dwindled. The moon landings marked not the beginning, but the end, of our space dreams.
Its a shame that we haven’t really progressed in space travel in over 40 years. We are still using the same vessels that were designed over 30 years ago! Space exploration is important, and if we wait until we have more funding to support something like NASA, they will never get more funding.
via The Observer .