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A lot can change in a 100 years. If you were to go back in time to Dec 26, 1913, you would see a much different world. A world in which almost every modern convenience we know today did not exist. Air travel and even automobile travel was still in it's infancy and only available to the elite. A world in which heart disease and cancer was a death sentence, among other ailments that are easily contained today.

Certainly space travel was considered science fiction. Sending men to the moon in 1913 sounded about as implausible as sending men to a different galaxy today.

We are closer to interstellar travel then we think. Once we develop a drive system to get us there, most of the other necessary technologies have already been developed. Unless we find a way to break the light barrier however, these journeys will involve hundreds or even thousands of years, necessitating the ability to reproduce along the way. So women will need to be sent on these quests as well. It's possible that a man will take off from Earth and yet it will be his great-great-great-great-great grandson who actually concludes the mission and the original man will be long dead - his body being ejected into the vast blackness of space.

Sending men to the moon in 1913 sounded about as implausible as sending men to a different galaxy today.

Just a thought but there might be another perspective. I look back at that time and see much enthusiasm and belief and action on that belief. There were plane clubs, radio clubs, and EVERYONE was looking forward to their new future. Kids played with chemistry sets, radio sets, etc.

We had clear vision of what we wanted. “to go to the moon in this decade.” We set goals and reached them both personally and for the nation.

But when you manage for what you don’t want, you get lost. We don’t want poverty, we don’t want pollution, we don’t want to offend anyone........................