SPACE RACE
The president of the United States pauses in the stifling heat of a Texan September afternoon. How the next line goes down with the crowd could define his time in power. Or at least, provide some respite from relentless criticism of his foreign policy and the USA’s wobbly status as the world’s pre-eminent superpower, not to mention tabloid gossip around his private life.
He braces his left hand on the lectern, and bangs his right fist in front of him as he bellows into the sultry silence: “We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade – and do the other things – not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”
How times have changed… and not. Since JFK ignited America’s challenge against the runaway Soviet leaders in the original Space Race – culminating in the ‘giant leap’ he would not live to see
