[LauraJean]

Right you are. A couple years ago I went to a space confrence in Milwaukee. Most of the people talking were brillant but they had not a clue on what to use space flight for. The one speaker I remember the most clearly was a guy that owned a brickmaking company in Illinois. He talked about how his company was given a little bit of moon dust to make bricks. I can't remember everything he said but I do remember the excitment he had about the experiments. You could see how proud he was about his contribution.

[RightWhale]

Imported things have an appeal all their own. They have to be the right things: Chinese-made anything isn't so hot at the moment; French wine is really no better than New York wine. If it's hard to get, and everybody knows moon dust is near impossible to get, it has a special appeal, everybody feels it. It's like we have an excitement of knowing that these things are coming, but we can't do anything about it right now, we'd all be dead of hypertension if we stayed excited about this. But when the ships start flying to the moon again, you'll see a tremendous level of interest. Probably the project engineers will among the least excited.

[Lokibob]

I know exactly how he felt.

Years ago, I was a weather observer in White Sands Missile Range and was assigned to cover a missile firing by measuring the winds up range for a Little Joe 2 mission. The mission was a success, and a few years later, the Little Joe 2 rocket was the escape rocket for the Apollo missions (thankfully, never needed). Still, to this day, I consider that I had a hand in making the Apollo a success.