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April 30, 2008
The Rocket City Cares More About a Mall than the Moon
Yeah, it's a filler piece of news, but I live here(Rocket City/Huntsville) and damn if the article ain't true. The city where von Braun built spaceships to the moon is more infatuated with the new mall. Space conquests are afterthoughts, if that much.
Yet NASA's mission to return astronauts to the moon - and eventually send them to Mars - has attracted little public interest here, despite the fact that Huntsville engineers are developing the next generation of rockets for the project, which could create as many as 2,900 jobs in the city within five years."In the '60s and '70s, it was exciting. Everyone had space fever," recalled Polly Morton, a longtime resident who works with the city's tourism bureau.
These days, she said, plans to explore the heavens are overshadowed by more immediate earthly concerns - like the war in Iraq and concerns. about whether the government will have the money to complete the $100 billion Constellation program that began in 2005
"Mars is the next thing," Morton said. "But right now, because of the war and the funding, it's not talked about as much."
It is things like this...
"I don't know anything about it, and I don't want to know anything about it unless they bring me back some gas," said McCall, 21.
...that reminds me I must despise people.
(via 7d, myway news)
Posted by Groonk at April 30, 2008 10:32 PM | Ministry of Alabama, Mars
