The 74 Million – Chester E. Finn, Jr.
“For educators and ed reformers, the successful moonshot has additional salience. The successful lunar landing was part of an ambitious space program that was inspired in part — and certainly accelerated — by Cold War anxieties that the Soviet Union was getting ahead of the U.S. in weaponry (missiles, bombs, etc.) and in the race for supremacy in outer space, not to mention the global prestige-and-propaganda advantages of doing impressive things first.” (more)