CNN CNN Newsroom With Poppy Harlow and Jim Sciutto June 4, 2024 14:25:00
And delays and all of this to get back there? >> well, when we put people on the moon in the 1960s and the 1970s, we were in what felt like a race for survival, survival of the united states of america against the soviet union. we had an existential threat and we were responding to that in a peaceful way, which i think is wonderful, much better than solving that problem with bombs. so that kind of existential fear can shake loose the, you know, $140 billion in present day dollars that you would need to do the apollo program. so when that fear went away, we lost the impetus to be spending that ...