Jul
16
2009
“In 1962 someone thought we should go to the moon. Seven years later we did. All it took was building a rocket.
In a very real sense there wasn’t a moon until we built that rocket. Until we built the rocket. Similarly, there would have never been a rocket without a moon.
What united these two symbols into their intimate bond was an idea.
The 1969 moon landing is the paradigm for good ideas, and forty years later there are as many moons as there are ideas.
Our task is to build the rockets.” I wrote this copy last summer for There’s No Moon Without a Rocket, cited here to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11.
In a very real sense there wasn’t a moon until we built that rocket. Until we built the rocket. Similarly, there would have never been a rocket without a moon.
What united these two symbols into their intimate bond was an idea.
The 1969 moon landing is the paradigm for good ideas, and forty years later there are as many moons as there are ideas.
Our task is to build the rockets.” I wrote this copy last summer for There’s No Moon Without a Rocket, cited here to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11.
