There is a cynical, \u2018anti-space\u2019 ideology emerging, especially on some parts of the left. But this is misguided<\/p>\n
John F Kennedy once called space-faring \u201cthe most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which Man has ever embarked\u201d. We go to space because, he said \u2013 like George Mallory said of his reason to conquer Everest \u2013 \u201cit is there.\u201d<\/p>\n
While it is truer to say that the race for space between Washington and Moscow was driven as much by cold war competition as by humanity\u2019s pioneering spirit and the imperatives of scientific exploration, billions of ordinary people around the world recognized as much at the time and still<\/em> were able to marvel at our species\u2019 accomplishments in the heavens regardless of the flag under which they were achieved, from Sputnik to the moon landing.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There is a cynical, \u2018anti-space\u2019 ideology emerging, especially on some parts of the left. But this is misguided John F Kennedy once called space-faring \u201cthe most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which Man has ever embarked\u201d. We go to space because, he said \u2013 like George Mallory said of his reason to conquer … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}