Re: Are Astronauts Heroes?
I admire astronauts and the Apollo 11 crew where huge heroes of mine when I was a kid.
I think astronauts' hero status has been diminished somewhat by NASA's continuing to donk around with an obsolete space shuttle, fulfilling political obligations on a derelict space station when we should be getting on with the business of establishing bases on the Moon and Mars, with the long range goal being permanent colonization both there and perhaps further out on moons or asteroids.
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