Editorial: Will the Chinese beat the U.S. to Mars?
Fifty-two years ago tonight, the world sat transfixed, staring at a fuzzy black-and-white TV image of Neil Armstrong setting foot on the moon. If youâre trying to measure the pace and scale of human progress, consider this: It took 66 years from the Wright Brothersâ first 12-second flight over the sands of Kitty Hawk to setting down on another celestial body. The question is where we will be 66 years after the landing of Apollo 11 â the pace of exploration has clearly leveled off, but might soon spike again. Right now, we canât get back there. We might in a few years, howe...
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