On December 14, 1972, the voice of astronaut Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon, came through the loudspeaker at NASA Houston: “I take man’s last step from the surface, back home for some time to come…God-willing we will return.” The Apollo missions, of which Apollo 17 was the last, were by far the most popular manned ... Read More
In 1969, a softspoken protestant minister with a manner too gentle for Washington appeared before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications. The question was whether the federal government would grant the recently created Corporation for Public Broadcasting the 20 million dollars it needed to get off the ground. Asked to testify on behalf of educational children’s television, Mr. Fred Rogers – ... Read More
