08-07-2017 02:27 via thestranger.com

Why Trump and Pence Are Suddenly Interested in Space, Infinity and Beyond

by Charles Mudede Of course he's touching it... YouTube
British science fiction writer J.G. Ballard published "The Dead Astronaut" in 1968. This was at the height of the Space Age. In 1969, American humans landed on the moon. But in the short story, the space industry (launch pads, command control, rocket movers) were the ruins of a past civilization. The glory was gone. Weeds grew through abandoned spacesuits. Ballard wrote. CAPE KENNEDY has gone now, its gantries rising from the deserted dunes
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