A few years ago when I came across this snippet, I did some searching and found that the video and transcript of the original one-hour episode (Cosmos, episode 13, Dec 21, 1980, Who Speaks for Earth? by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan) is available via the Library of Congress. It's a powerful video.
@luckytran as Neil DeGrasse said in a CBC interview this week: it was for geopolitical purposes the first Moon landing, and is the same now, against China
//EDIT: not for space exploration, really
The next major war with nuclear weapons will take about 7 minutes from beginning to end. It took 4.5 billion years to get here and an eye blink to be gone.
Here's a song from the 60's sorta says what needs to be said.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ1ohsissjE&list=RDUZ1ohsissjE&start_radio=1

The youtube link doesn’t work.