#Woke Scold on the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11 🚀🌒
By: Aaron Peek
Tags: Apollo, Russia, NASA, Space, Woke

#Woke Scold on the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11 🚀🌒

We choose to go to the moon…

On July 16th, 1969 at 9:32 edt, a 363 foot tall rocket lit it’s F-1 engines generating 7,891,000 lbs of thrust. The most powerful rocket developed, and still is. On top of it, Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins sat headed towards the moon.

We currently live in a world of intersectional and identity politics, which means no great event can go unpunished. The following articles came from the NYT and WaPo. (I’d rather you not click on them as they don’t need revenue, just for context.)

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/science/women-astronauts-nasa.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes# https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/16/us/how-the-soviets-won-the-space-race-for-equality.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/forget-new-manned-missions-in-space-nasa-should-focus-on-saving-earth/2019/07/18/79e55eb8-a995-11e9-9214-246e594de5d5_story.html?utm_term=.3ba633a38b77 The culture that put men on the moon was intense, fun, family-unfriendly, and mostly white and male https://t.co/x5vQBuU4IN

A few things I noticed about these is they all had the same theme, that white males are bad, and Apollo should be shunned for this, also that they all dropped after the 50th anniversary of the launch, as a warm up to the 20th, the 50th of the moon landing (I assure you, more wokeness will come on that day)

Saturn V Launches

This narrative is of course false, and hardly worthy of a response. While 100 may see this, 100,000 will read each of these articles. Xennials, Millennials that may not recognize the importance of the space program and what was accomplished this week 50 years ago.

For Starters, over 400,000 people were involved in Apollo, they were young, old, fat, skinny, educated, un-educated, man, woman and every race you can think of, were the guys on top of the Saturn V white? Yep. They were the best for the mission.

Was NASA late to the game with Women, and did Russia beat them? Yes. Did they put Valentina Tereshkova in a poorly made craft in Vostok 6…absolutely. When Sally Ride went up in 1983 in Shuttle it was infinitely safer (skip the ackshually of Challenger). Did Tereshkova survive YEP!, doesn’t mean other Cosmonauts didn’t pay the price 5 confirmed dead including this article (Do not google the audio it will haunt you) https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2011/05/02/134597833/cosmonaut-crashed-into-earth-crying-in-rage

Apollo 11 hits Max Q

I will not get into the Dead Cosmonauts in this, although a fascinating subject. For the American paper of record to dunk on NASA for a Communist achievement is weird, the Russians should be proud of their space program, but they did not get to the moon. We did.

There was a movie that came out a few years ago, that the Times and WaPo must have slipped their mind, Hidden Figures (Great Movie) that illistrated a very important contribution from African- Americans to Apollo. Each step from Mercury, Gemini to Apollo was critical right down to the placement of a decimal.

Never?

For #CancelCulture to take it’s shot at #Apollo isnt surprising, for it to be strategically done by the mainstream media, is surprising. After all the Times said in 1936 that we would not leave earth, 18 Years later one did. Celebrating the CCCP putting a woman into space, is the same as celebrating a woman rising within the ranks of the Nazis. Communism has a 100 million body count, capitalism does not.

(I’ve added this thread from @hollymathnerd) https://twitter.com/hollymathnerd/status/1151876274694041600?s=21

This is where we are as a society, canceling people, events, companies for the smallest slip up, even events that occured in a different time. I will take all of the innovations, progress and discoveries made due to Apollo and we as a society learn from the mistakes and do better.

Cancel culture is part of the reason #NASA hasn’t replaced the Space Shuttle, it’s been 8 years. We have nothing but projects that pitter out…we pay Russia $93 per ass to send our Astronauts to the ISS, now that is a Russian Collusion story I’d like dug into. The best day in Space history is July 20th, it’s worst day is the 21st when Atlantis landed. We are risk adverse, it costs too much, STEM is underfunded and under appreciated in schools across the country. If we are to return to the Moon and get to Mars, we must continue to press the boundries of human understanding, abilities and limits.

That being said Apollo 11 is the last time the entire world was focused on a goal, all eyes were looking to the Moon, for hope, for all mankind. 500 Million people from the Aborigeni, Russians to a little girl in Encino, California.

The next people headed to Mars are in grade school right now, Apollo, Shuttle, Soyuz, Falcon all of them inspire them to reach higher.

But what do I know, I am just a white guy from a farm in Michigan…

Per aspera ad astra 🚀🇺🇸