RE: The Moon Launch
OK, look, I admit it. I am an astronaut fanboy nerd (except for one ex-astronaut politician whose head resembles a scrotum).
If you are a late Boomer or early Gen Xer, you remember.
You heard Genesis read from an astronaut orbiting the Moon.
You and all your friends wanted to be astronauts, more than anything.
You remember that your parents bought your family’s first color TV to watch Neil Armstrong on the Moon.
You built the LEM and CSM models and only killed a few brain cells with the glue.
You were scared and prayed during Apollo 13.
You had the lunchbox.
You were sad when they cut off funding for the rest of the Moon landings.
You were amazed when they saved Skylab.
You watched all the movies. (You saw “The Right Stuff” and “Apollo 13” at least 20 times each.)
You cried over Challenger and Columbia.
You got older and wondered why we became so timid. Why not more of the Moon? Why not Mars? Why not beyond? The ISS seemed so…. limiting.
You always said that the US space program was the one thing you did not care how much your were taxed for.
Elon became a god of space travel, and you were there for it.
So it’s our day, fellow astronaut nerd fanboys and fangirls. Put on your make-believe astronaut beanies and goggles, be 8 again, and remember the way you took that refrigerator cardboard box and turned it into the inside of an Apollo capsule with magic markers, Scotch tape and buttons stolen from your Mom’s sewing box.
WE’RE GOING BACK TO THE FREAKING MOON BABY!!!!!🚀❤️🤍💙🇺🇸