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[Doug Millison]

At 7:04 AM 6/24/97, Tom Stanton wrote:
>The US moon program was very unpopular with the Left & the new
>youth movement. While we could not find funding for the War on
>Poverty, education, etc., we spent billions on Viet Nam & the moon,

At the time of the first U.S. manned flights in the early 60's,  my
grandfather -- then nearly 80 years old, working class -- wondered "why
we're spending all this money up there in outer space when there are so
many problems to solve down here"; I suspect this sentiment was more common
that we might suspect, once past the media glitz ("sponsored by the
military-industrial complex" of course) of Walter Cronkite coverage of our
noble conquest of space during those years. Clear parallels, too, between
the engineering/scientific feat of rocketry and space exploration and what
Mason & Dixon do on behalf of the European conquest of "America".

Cordially,
Doug


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