Reply #12: Clark said he wanted to be an astronaut... [View All]

[Octafish]

... but gave up on the idea when NASA was getting de-funded by Nixon and the rest of the Kennedy-haters.

As noted above on this thread, much of the research that went into the space program benefitted us on earth. Imagine where we be f we had continued to develop the space program? Perhaps war, itself, would be forgotten. With space the new frontier (as JFK said), we would be able to find the room, materials and MISSION that would make fighting obsolete and cooperation the way of the world.

BTW: I, too, am a frustrated astronaut.