What is the Future of Manned Space Flight?
distorted and blurry but we watched in eager anticipation when he jumped off the Lunar Lander and said in a voice that was filled with static and was very unemotional: “That’s one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind.” Science and space flight were very big at that time. The country was on the dawn of a new era and the sky was literally not the limit anymore. NASA and the space program even spilled over into popular culture. All us kids woke up to a glass of Tang in the morning because that’s what the astronauts drank when they were in space. The TV was filled with popular shows about space like “Star Trek” and “Lost in Space.” Science Fiction novels were big sellers in the bookstores and there was even a comedy on television called “My Favorite Martian” about a friendly Martian who had the ability to move objects around with his index finger and have antennas pop out of his head. We went on field trips to see the old Mercury space capsule and marveled at how small it was
