Good day Thomas Jefferson, our podcast listeners and thank you for listening.

You know David I was just on my annual Lewis and Cart cultural tour in Montana and

Idaho and one of the lectures I gave around the campfire was about the space program then and the space program now.

And it turns out there are lots of interesting parallels, the white pyroge, the one that nearly capsized in eastern Montana and items were saved by

none other than Chicagoia. That was like the command module of the Apollo

program. The booster rockets for Lewis and Clark were these French voyagers and the

keel boat that got them from St. Louis up to North Dakota. Then they sent the voyagers and

the keel boat back because they had no longer needed them.

They'd propelled their men that far up the river.

A visionary president, Thomas Jefferson, who took some political risks to make this thing happen just as John Kennedy in

1961 in May made that famous pronouncement to a joint session of Congress and so on.

The parallels are quite interesting. Here's the difference. When

Lewis and Clark left St. Charles Missouri, they were on their own. No way to

communicate. They did send back some reports from North Dakota, but essentially they left the known world for over two years

In the space program we had telemetry their bodies were filled with sensors.

There was radio, the simulators had been going for years.

We knew every possible thing that was happening or could happen.

We know about the personal habits, the bowel movements of the men on the moon because they were

no they were being they were being carefully observed by by physicians.

That's kind of think you probably don't have to bring up. I do bring up because because the difference is is profound and here's one final one

when Lewis gets back his book is the is the only way the world's going to know

about this and he didn't write the book

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