The End

[Rollingthunder]

of something great

[Herod]

Isn't progress wonderful? In the old days, all we could do was fly transAtlantic in a supersonic airliner and send men to walk on the moon.

[evansb]

Yes, the United States was great, but its days as the world's dominating economic power are coming to an end...Oh, I'm sorry, I was supposed to comment on what? aerospace? Yes, America went to the moon, and launched the Hubble space telescope, and put a rover on Mars. Yes, all great achievements, but the Space shuttle never really captured many imaginations because it only went up to a maximum of 600 miles above earth, (less than the distance from Calgary to Winnipeg), hardly Buck Rogers in the 21st century space travel stuff, but yes it was a fantastic piece of re-usable space technology that, in the end, really wasn't that safe.

[Noyade]

In 1969 my class had a debate on the money spent on the moon mission, titled something along the lines of "Moon Mission - What about the Poor?" The teacher plucked kids at random and they had to quickly state their opinion.

One kid who shall remain nameless - said, "There is no point sending poor people to the Moon, cause they won't be able to buy anything!"

[Rosevidney1]

It holds the record (which is unlikely to be broken) as the worlds fastest glider! Respect!!