I'm watching Apollo 13 and...

Posted by CalamityClambake@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 76 comments

This is for my USA Xennials, but anyone is welcome to chime in. You guys, we are now farther away from when the movie was made than the movie was from the events it depicts. When I watched this movie as a teen, I just took it for granted that we put a man on the moon. Kennedy Space Center? Of course we had that. But now, I can't imagine that we could pull it together to achieve something of this magintude. We just don't value science and civic duty like we did back then. I'm sad. And I feel old.