Something always seems to come up to link things we talk about in the history of technology to the world of today. This week presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has proposed the United States establish a colony on the Moon. It seems obvious that he did so at this time because the Florida primary is coming up and a renewed space program would create a lot of jobs in Florida. What do you think the Apollo program can tell us about the prospects of establishing a Moon base? It is intriguing (and I think appropriate) that a New York Times article on this subject has the headline "technology is the easy part." This is a reminder that all technologies have to "work" technically, but they also have to work politically and economically.
This also happens to be the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 1 fire. The Washington Post ran a story on it recently.
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