International, National & Minnesota
If you are a child of the 60’s or 70’s you followed the Apollo Program. Issues of magazines, like Time, Life and National Geographic contained articles about the Astronauts, the equipment and the missions. In fact, National Geographic produced a vinyl tear-out of the audio of the Sounds of Space narrated by Apollo 8 Mission Commander Frank Borman.
We all watched the landing of Apollo 11 and listened to the conversation between Mission Control with the crew and heard the immortal words of Neil Armstrong as he made the first exit from the lunar lander, “One step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”
This effort was foretold by President John F Kennedy (D) in his address at Rice University in 1962, when he said, “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”. It was accomplished before the end of the decade with the Apollo 11 flight.
Now, with the Artemis Program we start again, and under the name of Apollo’s sister the outcome is to have a Space Station located on the moon. Maybe they will need to have the Space Force based there to protect our planet from aliens.