Reflections
January 1, 1973
New Year's Day 1973. The Apollo program is over. Skylab is coming — a space station, American men in orbit for months at a time. A Space Shuttle is being designed. We'll be back on the Moon by 1985, surely. Maybe we'll be on Mars by the 1990s. (I suspect…
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November 1, 1969
We've landed on the Moon. The program continues. But where does it go? What is the next goal that organizes the way Kennedy's speech organized this one?
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July 12, 1965
Mariner 4 flew past Mars on July 14 and took 22 photographs. The first close-up images of another planet. Mars looks like the Moon.
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