New crew docks at China's first permanent space station

[Kid Berwyn]

11. Integrity.

Thank you for sharing the important background. Please know I truly and completely appreciate the service of your grandfather. I owe my freedom to him and all who answered the call on the home front and on the battlefield.

I also very much appreciate your analysis of the great game of nations and our military-industrial complex. Thank you for expressing the importance of sharing scientific information for the common good and devoting your education and skills toward building a better world.

As a 10-year old, my best friend’s dad worked at Whirlpool Corporation, where their work included packaging foods for Gemini and Apollo. Over the decades since, I have enjoyed the good fortune of meeting several engineers who worked on the Apollo Program. They all told me it was the best job they ever had or that it was the best work they ever did.

President Kennedy wanted NASA to have civilian leadership. I believe he hoped the peaceful exploration of space would unite humanity in the effort to explore and colonize the New Frontier. Had he lived, our world today might more closely resemble 2001 than 1984.