We could have gone to the stars, but we took another road instead. Maybe we can still turn back to a time when we could do great things before it's too late.
Fifty years ago, a nation that we now know was racist, didn't care about the environment and drank too much soda, landed on the moon.
As the New York Times notes, its space program was less diverse than that of the USSR, which never did make it to the moon, but excelled at sending dogs to die in space.