Mark Steyn: "The Lost Frontier"

Mark takes on the fact that we seem to have lost the ability to explore.  The last time we went to the moon was over 50 years ago.  Donald Trump's announcement of an American Space Force was greeted with ridicule even as our entire economy would collapse if space became enemy territory.

Mark sums it up.

Those "Space Age" astronauts were men of boundless courage and determination: they strapped themselves in and stared not just death in the face but death in hideous and unknown ways. Yet they were also ordinary men, who were called upon to do extraordinary things and rose to the challenge. These days we are unmanned in more than merely the sense of that Luna 2 expedition. Glenn and Armstrong are gone, and their surviving comrades are old and stooped and wizened, and yet the only giants we have. Space may still be the final frontier, but today, when we talk about boldly going where no man has gone before, we mean the ladies' bathroom. Progress.