Word: space
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...true meaning of the moonshot lies in the moment. A given moment is all one can be entirely aware of, can fully experience. During the actual shot, the what would happen was still essentially unknown, a true probe in the imagination; the space capsule could have yoyoed the moon and whipped off towards the sun on a screaming tangent. But more importantly, only we, observing the space shot at the moment it happened, can fully understand the extent of human knowledge, mythology, and curiosity at the time of the experience...
...minds, as we watched the live TV shots from space are much more like the minds of the astronauts themselves than will be the minds of any future historians. And we will know what it is to have tried to build a philosophy limited to the single chunk of the planet, and then to be liberated, able to imagine realistically that an alternative to our daily living experience was to be completely removed from this world...
What the Christmas moonshot tells us is that we are pressing forward into space. Like the invention of electricity and the dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima, the moonshot is one of those dramatic events that reminds us that the conditions of our lives are always changing. Our civilizations, like a rain-muddied road under the feet of a retreating Union army, is having its very nature reshaped...
...things space people are asked to explain is how we can let ourselves pay billions of dollars to keep a couple of individuals up for a few hours when that money could be putting food in the mouths now of now starving people all over the world and even here in the U.S.A...
Again people who ask this fail to see the oneness of man's condition. Space spending is related to spending on social programs only to the extent that it is related to all spending, all efforts of man's production and economy...