How to Sell a Skeptical America On Funding the New Space Race
On the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, the nation is focused on problems closer to home. A virtual reality studio wants to change that.
Felix & Paul Studios are shooting a virtual reality documentary in space as humans head back to the stars.
On May 25, 1961, U.S. President John F. Kennedy said Americans would land a man on the moon and return him safely to Earth by the end of the decade. Fifty years ago this week, NASA fulfilled Kennedy’s pledge.
But while the space agency marched toward the moon, the nation was consumed by politics—from the fight for civil rights to the Vietnam War. And while the Apollo program captured the imagination of Americans when the Eagle landed in the Sea of Tranquility, there was significant opposition to the program’s cost both before and after that historic moment.