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We Must Be Our Own Kennedy

机译:我们必须是我们自己的肯尼迪

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Sometimes you have to change course to get on course. And the first small step in doing so may be to realize you didn't really know where you were going in the first place - and why. When President John F. Kennedy set us on a path to the moon in the 1960s, he knew exactly why - to produce a photo op that would clearly show America would be the winner in the decades-long battle of political systems called the Cold War. Whatever else followed (or didn't), his goal was clear, those assigned the job understood the strategy needed to succeed and it was magnificently achieved. Yet from the moment those images of Buzz and Neil arrived on the world's television sets, our human space program has been lost, for a blatantly simple and obvious reason - after the first giant leap to take that first small step there was no plan for the next one, because there was no second question to be answered. Why go to the moon? To beat the Soviets. Done. There was no serious conversation about why we should stay or go further or do more. And without a "Why?" whose answer is as compelling as that of stemming possible world domination by a competing "evil empire" that inspires people to do impossible things, they will settle for the possible, and mediocrity will reign.
机译:有时,您必须改变路线以继续前进。这样做的第一步是认识到您一开始并不真正知道要去哪里-为什么。当肯尼迪总统在1960年代将我们带到通往月球的道路上时,他确切地知道了为什么-制作一张照片,清楚地表明美国将在长达数十年的政治体系之战(称为冷战)中获胜。无论采取什么其他措施(或没有采取其他措施),他的目标都是明确的,被分配工作的人员都知道成功所需要的策略,并且取得了巨大的成就。然而,自从Buzz和Neil的这些图像出现在世界电视上以来,由于一个明显而又显而易见的原因,我们的人类太空计划已经丢失了-在迈出第一步的第一步之后,就没有计划了。下一个,因为没有第二个问题要回答。为什么要去月球?击败苏维埃。做完了关于为什么我们应该留下或走得更远或做更多的事情,没有认真的讨论。而且没有“为什么?”他的回答令人信服,就像通过激发人们去做不可能的事情的竞争性“邪恶帝国”制止可能的世界统治一样,他们将为可能做准备,而平庸将占统治地位。

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    《Space news》 |2015年第17期|1921|共2页
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    RICK TUMLINSON;

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