Disputes about relevance on FT? Since when has relevance been a posting requirement? Not since around May of this year I would guess...

Raeban and I "did the Cape" over Labor Day weekend -- in many ways we were quite simply awe-struck at engineering feats of 30 years ago... I too remember the Apollo days as being "recent" events and remember the excitement of yet another voyage into the abyss of space.

I think you've hit the nail on the head, RichG -- it was a confluence of events that brought those heady times to us. I think Marx called it a correlation of forces...

Sadly, I see nothing of that in our near future.

Onefreeman, exits soapbox...