"The very fact that it’s called “the space program” should be the first clue that there’s a problem. Do we have “the silicon chip program”? “The airplane program”? We have “computer programs”, but no “the computer program” that we are all supposed to come to political agreement to spend collectively on if we want to be able to run software on our computers."

Read the Whole Dang Thing. It’s chock full of revisionist history about NASA. Like his theory that we could have launched a satellite before Sputnik and why we waited.