Our Fate Is in the Stars

As journalist Charles Fishman recounts in his new book, One Giant Leap, today’s laptops and phones are descendants of Apollo. Yet even before the rocket lifted off for the moon, budget cuts forced NASA to shut the production line, and when the Nixon administration ended Apollo altogether, two fully functional Saturn Vs were left to rot. In a new book, The Case for Space, Zubrin argues that Musk, Jeff Bezos, and others who are pouring their fortunes into rocket development—the so-called NewSpace movement—are making this plan possible again.

Source: theamericanscholar.org