21st Century: Query 102 (Jim Lovell)
“We got
to the moon on Christmas Eve 1968, at the end of a poor year for this country.
We had Vietnam. We had civil unrest. We had the assassinations of Robert
Kennedy and Martin Luther King. But we went around the moon and saw the far
side for the first time. A script writer couldn’t have done a better job of
raising people’s hope.”
How might exploring
and eventually colonizing Mars save humanity from going extinct?
Merry
Christmas!