The real price tag of the Apollo Program isn’t best measured in dollars

Let’s ask the pointed question: should the chapter be a “narrow tent” or a wide one?

Thanks to Jim Lovell’s recent book, “Lost Moon”, and to Ron Howard’s well-received movie dramatization of the “Apollo 13” mission, we begin to suspect we may have been overlooking other opportunities that the inexorable march of time presents.

Those of you who have not yet seen the new Ron Howard movie, Apollo 13, with Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise, and Ed Harris, go see it. It is great! The movie faithfully follows Jim Lovell’s book Lost Moon and is thoroughly factual. Even though you know the outcome, it keeps you on the […]

Many of us space advocates are all too painfully aware that our own ‘premature’ birthdates and mortality conspire against our ever participating in the actual unfolding drama of the realization of a space frontier. Others are unwilling to admit such a possibility and have deep held hopes of personally blazing the trail. Whatever our personal […]