‘Waste anything but time.” That was the motto of the teams behind NASA’s Apollo missions. That spirit has long since evaporated. Today’s NASA is pulled by a million missions, from improving education and spinning off more products like Tang to its latest call of duty: telling Muslims how good they are at math.
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We’ve gone from “waste anything but time” to “waste everything, especially time” in about a generation.
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