Moon landing shock: NASA's plans to leave Neil Armstrong on Moon to DIE if mission went awry
In 1962, President John F Kennedy called for a mission to the Moon. It was, he said, a"new frontier". Talk of frontiers was a throwback to the nineteenth century, but it made a certain sense.The prospect of claiming the Moon – vast, uninhabited, strategically useful and mineral-rich – is precisely the sort of thing the would have made the world conquerors of old salivate.British arch-imperialist Cecil Rhodes once mused:"I would annex the planets if I could. I often think of that.
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