Why the religious sidetrack and the need to infer a Nazi scientists original motivations?
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“I love the Apollo 11 story and the details associated with it, especially time period specifics like how toys created critical thinkers. However, the host goes down two rabbits holes in the second episode. First, he begins to wrestle with political motivations (or lack thereof) for Von Braun. It’s safe to say whatever tests we used to determine war criminal from scientist seeking asylum were most certainly tilted by national interests. The pod cast would be better served to say that and move on. Von Braun’s science may be viewed by American historians in a positive light but victims across Europe might not get there. The podcast does a good job in showing that duality but the host feels compelled to tell you what he thinks. It almost comes across as a validation for his glazed over memory that all things Space Race must be good. Nothing is that simple, even as we celebrate the 50th anniversary.
Secondly, the host again takes a fact and turns it into an opportunity to pass his personal viewpoint. The God related statements by Apollo 10 are fact and it’s context for the time is relevant. As is Aldrin’s makeshift communion after the Eagle reaches the lunar surface. Many of the astronauts and officer corps that they came from were religious people. But some (and perhaps many) are not. The host seems to suggest that in order to have been good enough to be an Apollo astronaut, you needed to share the same religious beliefs. That leap of faith (pun intended) is more about validating his own beliefs than relevant reporting. NASA was correct to limit Aldrin from making his religious convictions the worlds’s to know or share. The host suggests that anyone who felt differently must be communist because the individual who filed the law suit had connections to communist thinking. One of the greatest benefits of landing on the moon was the bringing together of people...all people. The scenes of distant lands and foreign cultures huddled around TVs to witness the impossible transcends any one religion or political ideology. The host claims it to be the first step on the slippery slope of being PC, but that’s only because it’s his majority view/belief that is being muted. I am certain the atheist, Jew or Muslims among the countless contributors to the space program felt no need to broadcast their personal belief system as they handed in a set of calculations, turned a wrench or stitched a spacesuit. There common cause was not religiously based. On the 1000 year anniversary we will likely have evolved to either a completely secular society or found a different belief system. The history of this event should be remembered for its scientific significance and human achievement, not whether or not it paid proper respects to the majority deity of the time.
Keep the story about the story. Especially one as rich as this one.”
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United States of America ·
07/17/19
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