August 28th, 2012 at 10:07AM
Nothing tangible changed when Neil Armstrong’s foot dug into the lunar dust and his eyes turned back at us. We didn’t get faster wheels or smaller machines or more effective medicine. But we changed, fundamentally. —

Lydia Netzer in The Man in the Moon, an op-ed for the New York Times

Whenever someone talks about NASA spinoffs or the technological benefits of space exploration, they’ve got it exactly backwards. We make technological progress so we get to go into space, because SPACE IS AWESOME. Full stop. We need more awesome in our lives.
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