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Man-on-Moon July 20 40th Anniversary Shows NASA Dream 'Weak' for 40 Years Since, Says Robert Weiner; Russians Poised to Beat U.S. to Mars, Venus, Pluto
July 17, 2009As the July 20 fortieth anniversary of earthlings' first moon landing approaches, former White House Spokesman Bob Weiner and Policy Analyst Zoe Pagonis urge NASA, "Focus on the dream of traveling to other planets and reverse NASA's satisfaction with the mundane." Weiner and Pagonis assert, "The news for NASA now is a pale comparison to 1969." "Forty years later, we have to ask, what happened to man and woman on Mars and Venus? By now we thought we'd even reach Pluto. Yet after a few repeat moon missions, we just stopped leaving earth. The man-on-the-moon July 20th 40th Anniversary drives home that NASA's dream has been weak for the forty years since the landing. No one then thought we wouldn't be on Mars, Venus, and even Pluto by now." Full release.