Great to see all the retrospectives on the Apollo moon landing.  It took place forty years ago today, when I was five.  I vaguely remember seeing one of the moon landings on the TV in my kindergarten room (I started Kindergarten at Wardlow Elementary later in 1969), but can’t say for sure whether it was the Apollo 11 landing or one of the others.

While I have nothing but respect for the 1969 triumph, the current state of the United States space program still just leaves me furious.  Apollo on steroids? Billions of dollars for Bush’s great leap back to the 60s?  Some days I get the feeling history will look back on the current program and compare it to the Viking exploitation of their discovery of the Americas.  Nice as a footnote, but pointless in the bigger scheme.  At least the private sector is finally stepping up.