Mastodawn

An early, but still vivid, formative memory of mine was watching the noisy, black & white video of the Apollo 11 mission. It was partly responsible for my enduring sense of awe and possibility, and probably the moment I knew I had to be a scientist or engineer.

Our world is going to hell in many ways, to be sure, but we're going to the moon again today, and I can't help but get excited about that.

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Carolyn

@mattblaze I am both excited about it (what took so long), and trepidatious about tech bros getting involved. I don’t want to see big ads up in the sky. ;)

I always thought of NASA as the best of humankind: science, integrity, adventure, exploration. But now they are bringing in the exploitation crowd.