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Another great quote, found in a comment on a Slashdot thread<\/a>:<\/p>\n

1962 – “We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”<\/p>\n

2006 – “Its too hard and too expensive.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1962 – “We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”<\/p>\n

2006 – “Its too hard and too expensive.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-space","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-cN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2725,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2009\/07\/20\/40-years-since-the-moon-and-what-do-we-have-to-show-for-it\/","url_meta":{"origin":793,"position":0},"title":"40 Years Since the Moon – And What Do We Have to Show For It?","author":"Keith Survell","date":"July 20, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"It's the 40th anniversary of the first manned landing on the moon... and time to really start wondering why we never followed up on those first amazing steps.","rel":"","context":"In "My Opinion"","block_context":{"text":"My Opinion","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/personal\/my-opinion\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1551,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/12\/13\/a-little-bit-of-lunar-photography\/","url_meta":{"origin":793,"position":1},"title":"A Little bit of Lunar Photography","author":"Keith Survell","date":"December 13, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I couldn't help but notice the other night that the full moon was out - and it was really, really bright. 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