I was 4 years out of the Army and close to graduating with my undergraduate degree. The entire program was a unifying influence on the country---we were proud of NASA and the USA I tried never to miss a launch, be it radio or TV---I would have hung on the side if they would have allowed it.
After graduation I was working for a very large consulting company and had the exciting honor of working on the VAB (Vehicle Assembly Building), That building is so large that until the doors were in place and we could start the AC systems we would often get clouds forming in the top preventing any high work!
We need another common success that we could unite around and feel positive about our government and our collective abilities.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis