66 Years then 35 more...

Strong winds blew along the outer banks near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina on the morning of December 17th, 1903. The brothers had long toiled to get to this day.

With a sputter and a few gasps, aviation was born.

The bitter silence on July 20, 1969 had technicians concerned that maybe they had missed something. At Mission Control, the intercom crackled, "Tranquility Base here... The Eagle has landed."

All of this in the span of a mere 66 years. In less than a lifetime, mankind soared from the bounds of the Earth to land and walk on the surface of another world.

Today, 35 years later, it’s hard for us to even imagine that men once walked on the moon.

The Apollo program was originally scheduled to have 20 flights but was cut short after Apollo 17.

The stated reasoning used for the cancellation of the remaining three flights was to re-allocate funds for the next generation of space vehicle, the space shuttle, and to fund ambitious space station activities. This, of course, was a fabrication to cover the fact that Congress had terminated funding of the Apollo program.

During the 1960's, a concerted effort was made by a faction of socialists within our government to hinder or otherwise delay the advancement of the American space program. Their belief was that space should be used by and for the benefit of all nations. Misguided as they were, they were very successful in changing the direction of our space program. They were able to undermine support for programs that were yielding great dividends and moving that funding to dead-end programs and wasteful projects.

The space shuttle is perhaps the most glaring example of how the socialists were able to redirect attention and waste funds. The bloated budget and impossible to regulate schedule of the space shuttle program was set to fail despite thousands of good and decent Americans working hard to make this program happen. The space shuttle was a decoy.

Where would our space program be today IF Apollo was allowed to continue? Obviously, we would be sending astronauts to Mars instead of rovers. With each Apollo mission, NASA pushed further and further out, knocking down one barrier after another and achieving greater and greater success. There is no reason to believe that an extended Apollo program would have no doubt reached Mars during the late 1970's or early 1980's.

While Americans marveled at the new space shuttle, with all of its shortcomings and limitations, the socialist lobbyists celebrate a great victory. They had derailed the Americans efforts to achieve even greater endeavors out beyond.

The space shuttle was a money pit and everyone ever associated with it will say the same, in their own words of course. The space shuttle and its impossible schedule resulted in the loss of 14 astronauts' lives. Their dream to reach the stars was dashed by the determined and destructive efforts of the hidden agenda of these foreigners that somehow got the ear of our Congress. It was FOREIGN nationals that gained access to our government that brought down Apollo, Challenger and Columbia. While the causes of the demise of these were varied the bottom line is that it can all be traced back to an agenda. That agenda? Stop the United States from dominating space. The fear of every socialist on the planet.

Think about it. Could the Soviet Union compete with the U.S.? Early on in the space race they enjoyed some success (their German scientists were better than our German scientists); however, as the realities and limitations of socialism set in, the Soviets experienced many failures and, ultimately, succumbed to this inevitable conclusion: socialism cannot succeed.

When will Americans wake up to these facts? The socialist's agenda is no different than the Muslim extremists. They both want to bring the United States down.

Let this service as your wake up call.

---Kemp