Episode #405 from 4:02
Space
That's how I imagine Clint Eastwood also in all those westerns, when he's not doing what he's doing, he's just watching soap operas. All right. I read that you fell in love with the idea of space and space exploration when you were five, watching Neil Armstrong walking on the moon. So, let me ask you to look back at the historical context and impact of that. So, the space race from 1957 to 1969 between the Soviet Union and the US was, in many ways, epic. It was a rapid sequence of dramatic events. First satellite to space, first human to space, first spacewalk, first uncrewed landing on the moon. Then, some failures, explosions, deaths on both sides actually. And then, the first human walking on the moon. What are some of the more inspiring moments or insights you take away from that time, those few years at just 12 years? Well, I mean there's so much inspiring there. One of the great things to take away from that, one of the great von Braun quotes is, "I have come to use the word impossible with great caution." And so, that's kind of the big story of Apollo is that going to the moon was literally an analogy that people used for something that's impossible. "Oh, yeah, you'll do that when men walk on the moon." And of course, it finally happened. So, I think it was pulled forward in time because of the space race.
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That's how I imagine Clint Eastwood also in all those westerns, when he's not doing what he's doing, he's just watching soap operas. All right. I read that you fell in love with the idea of space and space exploration when you were five, watching Neil Armstrong walking on the moon. So, let me ask you to look back at the historical context and impact of that. So, the space race from 1957 to 1969 between the Soviet Union and the US was, in many ways, epic. It was a rapid sequence of dramatic events. First satellite to space, first human to space, first spacewalk, first uncrewed landing on the moon. Then, some failures, explosions, deaths on both sides actually. And then, the first human walking on the moon. What are some of the more inspiring moments or insights you take away from that time, those few years at just 12 years? Well, I mean there's so much inspiring there. One of the great things to take away from that, one of the great von Braun quotes is, "I have come to use the word impossible with great caution." And so, that's kind of the big story of Apollo is that going to the moon was literally an analogy that people used for something that's impossible. "Oh, yeah, you'll do that when men walk on the moon." And of course, it finally happened. So, I think it was pulled forward in time because of the space race.
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