Promising vs. Delivering the moon

The first president Bush offered a vision for Americans to returnto the moon. (And this was a guy who said he wasn’t good at “the vision thing”.)

The second president Bush offered a similar vision twenty years (or so) later.

Both Bushes offered minimal budget to keep their visions alive.

Now, that will end. America will abandon plans to return to the moon. It’s a failure to be bold…but perhaps refreshing honesty.

Many space experts, including former astronaut Scott Horowitz and NASA’s ex-administrator Michael Griffin are–like me–less than happy about the upcoming privatizing of spaceflight.

I was born in a different America, one that dreamed big and lived its dreams.

President Kennedy promised the moon. President Johnson followed through and delivered.