“After we stopped going to the moon, it all ended. We stopped dreaming.”

A tremendously good video arguing for funding of the space program. I couldn’t agree more. A depressing statistic: the 50 year budget for NASA is less than the bank bailout.

Watch it. Several times. NASA really is a force of nature, and a builder of the future. It is America, distilled. And we’re letting it shrivel up and die. (Via The Dish)

But I can’t possibly leave this out:

We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard. Because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills. Because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win.

The best of our energies and skills. We could use that again, no?

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