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...failure. But always the strains of tragedy have driven us to harder, more precise exertions. When the grief of Columbia's explosion passes, we will be closer together and still climbing "the wall of space" that John F. Kennedy described 40 years ago when he sent us to the moon...
That's when an irate Kennedy called in his space experts and told them he wanted to beat the Russians to the moon, and if they did not know how to do it, they should ask the janitor over at NASA. The space race was getting more complex, with men beginning to ride those dangerous rockets. But Kennedy relished the challenge and, indeed, the danger. So did America...
Long out of office, Richard Nixon mused one day about that era and the importance of our space achievements. Nixon was President when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon, a legacy of sorts from Kennedy. "Just think," he said in that interview, "how miserable it would have been had we not had the space success when we were in the midst of Vietnam, then Watergate and all that...
...astronauts as explorers, sublime pioneers who push ever farther into dark and unexplored territory. We understood when Roger Chaffee, Gus Grissom and Ed White died in a fire on Apollo I’s launchpad; they were paving the way to the moon. But today, NASA’s job has become far less glamorous, even mundane; astronauts either deploy ultra-secret military satellites or deliver supplies to the international space station...
America has a space program because we want to explore the last remaining frontier, and in order to do that, we need a clear and ambitious goal. President Kennedy provided one in 1961 when he declared that America would have a man on the moon by the end of the decade. It would be a fitting tribute to these brave men and women if President Bush declared that the U.S. would send a manned mission to Mars...