General Discussion

talk about it. And of course he kept changing his mind -- we're going to the Moon -- we're going to Mars -- we're not going to the Moon -- we're building a Lunar Space Station -- we're not going to Mars -- we are going to the Moon -- we're building a Lunar Station on the Moon, not in lunar orbit -- so much random bloviation and waffling from Trmp that my own reaction -- and I grew up during the Apollo era with a father who worked for Teledyne Brown on NASA contracts and got family tickets to the Apollo 17 launch, so I try harder than most to keep up -- was "Oh, is that going to happen after all ? It wasn't cancelled or scheduled for Hitler's birthday or something nuts like that ?" Maybe people in NASA were just laying low in the hope that Trmp wouldn't notice they were still there and forget to attack them some more. Well, it looks like it worked.

(BTW, I grew up in Huntsville AL when von Braun was still at NASA there and the area is still full of aerospace employers. Any news out of NASA is covered by local news faithfully. But everyone was holding their collective breath, and waiting for the zombie to lurch past without noticing them, I believe.)