CSPAN2 Under Desert Skies July 22, 2017
Because he came to tucson in about 1960, and he was the only one with at the time who was really interested in studying the moon and the planet. So at the time astronomers were very interested and distancing galaxy and nebula that were far we an there were few people interested at all in study the moon it was close, it was boring. You can see it pretty clearly through a telescope there wasnt much there so gerard was only one who wanted to do that, and that became incredibly important in 1961 when suddenly the president aannounced we were going to send people to the moon. Why did he come to tuc...