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January 13, 2004
A challenge for the nation
NSS Director Richard Godwin sent the following letter to Newsweek on January 13, 2004. Printed with the author's permission. Sirs: "Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach him to fish and you feed him for life" Giving the nation a real challenge like returning to the Moon to stay and moving out to Mars is equivalent to teaching the nation how to fish again. If we do not inspire the next generation of aerospace engineers to do something special then in 20 years time all of the best aerospace engineers will live in China. Tell me what that will do for your National Security and the economy? Here's another item to put into the spreadsheet. I'm a Brit who was first inspired to move to the USA because of the Apollo program. It seemed that Americans really knew what they wanted and what's more how to do it. I eventually moved here 17 years ago because of that first inspiration as a 7 year old child. I have since employed thousands of people here and paid millions in taxes. How do you add that benefit into the economics of our space program? Richard GodwinPosted by apsmith at January 13, 2004 04:03 PM
