Neil Armstrong in his space suit
Perhaps the single most interesting person I have ever met was Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon. It is my belief that Armstrong a thousand years from now, will probably be the only person remembered from this century. In the same way that Christopher Columbus has survived the last 500 years, I believe that Neil Armstrong will last for 500 to 1000 years.
I will go one step further. I believe he will be far better known 500 years from now than he is today as the first man to walk on the moon. He testified before Congress this week that the President is completely wrong in cutting funds for human exploration of space in favor of more limited programs, and attempting to transfer opportunities to the private sector.
From an economic standpoint we think that America’s space program has clearly succeeded in keeping this country number one in the world in high technology. With Obama’s new focus that is going to change, and not for the better. The electronics and technology that has come out of the space program is mind boggling. The techniques that were mastered to make things smaller boggle the human mind. The computer technologies generated, the software applications perfected, and I haven’t said a word about the military applications.
Do you think there is a reason why the Chinese are moving so swiftly into space. They recognize that whoever controls space, controls earth. It is the same reason why countries develop a navy. If you control the sea lanes, you control the oceans and the world. America controls the sea lanes, and has for half a century. Armstrong is right, this President has lost the vision for American conquering the unknown, and being first. Instead he continues to have us bogged down in Afghanistan where the problem is that 6 months after we leave, the Taliban will reassert control.
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