There was a space program before there was integrated circuits.
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We were young, we were pilots, and we were hungry to test the new technology of 'space machines.' And we all wanted to be first.
What got my interested in science fiction was actually the American space program.
I think here in America the space programme was such an enticing thing to be going on, that the thought of a family being able to go into space and live up there was really kind of mind-bending at the time.
We need a space program because we need explorers. Its in our souls.
I grew up watching a lot of the coverage of the early U.S. space program, all the way back starting with Mercury and then through Gemini and Apollo and of course going to the moon as the main part of the Apollo program.
In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since.
The space program is not only scientific in purpose but also is an expression of man's insistent determination to do the nearly impossible - to explore the unknown, even at great risk.
Space in general gave us GPS - that's not specifically NASA, but it's investments in space.
Congress came to see NASA primarily as a jobs program, not an exploratory agency.
But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.
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