Posted on 07/20/2019 12:51:57 PM PDT by DFG
Lots of deserved recollections on the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing over the last few weeks and months. There’s not much need to repeat the main themes of the scientific marvel or adventurous spirit of that glorious enterprise. Some political aspects of Apollo, however, have not received sufficient attention. Specifically, the liberal attitude toward the moon landing is emblematic of how American liberalism had lost confidence in itself and sunk into its guilt phase from which it has never emerged.
As befits our woeful woke era, there has been a lot of comment about the lack of “diversity” among the astronaut corps, and mission control staff, and so forth, along with some brief and perfunctory mentions of how the Poor People’s Campaign, led by Rev. Ralph Abernathy (Martin Luther King’s successor), came to the Apollo 11 launch at Cape Canaveral “to protest America’s inability to choose human priorities.” And we get stupid hot take tweets like this earlier this week:
(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...
Re: “ . . . 4 days later John Glenn would step onto the only other planet . . .”
Say, What?! John Glenn? Planet?
Say, What?! John Glenn? Planet?
Idiot.
The left and libs can gripe and moan all they want want about it was all white men, etc etc. But no one can detract from this momentous technological, engineering, and yes human achievement. It shows what can be accomplished when a goal is set and all work towards it. Bravo to everyone who worked in the space program from Mercury to Apollo, whether flying in a spacecraft or just a lowly solderer in the Grumman plant.
Nobody Wants to go to The Moon Anymore~ Damon Bramblet
https://youtu.be/oRt6w4oRw0I
There are a few things about the moon I can’t figure out...
For one, the moon is moving away from Earth about an inch a year... seems like it should have been long gone, far, far away by now -not talking human times here, we’re talking a WHOLE LOTTA years!
Another is that the moon is EXACTLY the distance it needs to be in to give us two astronomical events that can stun you - eclipses - both total eclipses, and annular eclipses.
I watched the total eclipse from near Eugene Oregon in 2017 and plan on going to the next one in a few years!
John Glenn wasn’t on Apollo 11. That was Neil Armstrong.
Many thanks for the link. That was thrilling.
The book and movie “Hidden Figures” tells how black female mathematicians provided the brain power for space shots probably of Alan Sheppard and John Glenn and beyond. Maybe that knowledge could be celebrated a bit more. Are black men chauvinistic? Why haven’t THEY ever celebrated it?
We landed on the moon?
Cue the Lloyd Christmas picture.
Haven’t see that one posted yet.
Come to think of it; why haven’t black WOMEN celebrated it.....instead of on the likes of Michelle Obama, a swingin’ d!(k crossdresser?
You obviously never heard of the Old Negro Space Program....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6xJzAYYrX8
“It was a different time, you understand....”
Whomever wrote that is a college graduate, you know.
I’m watching The Right Stuff tonight, I never saw it before. I looked up Chuck Yeager and that guy is still alive at 96!
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