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Here's what happened in the 1960s. We were at war with the Soviet Union

Cold War and a little bit of hot war over in the Southeast Asia. So we are we

fear them because they put up Sputnik which by the way people forget was an

emptied out casing of an intercontinental ballistic missile and Sputnik

itself means fellow travelers. It's all peaceful but it was a ballistic

missile head without explosives so that was a signal and we freaked in America.

So NASA got founded on the fear factor of Sputnik. All right so we then go to

the moon on the fear factor that Russia will control high ground. Then we go to

the moon space enthusiasts say oh run the moon by 69 will be on Mars in

another 10 years. They completely did not understand why we got to the moon in

the first place. We were at war. Once we saw that Russia was not ready to land

on the moon, stop going to the moon. That should not surprise anybody looking

back on it. Meanwhile however that entire era galvanized the nation forget the

war driver. galvanized this all to China about tomorrow to think about the

homes of tomorrow, see the food of everything was future world, future land.

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