I have to agree with Tom Wolfe, for once: NASA needs philosophers.
Or just people with normal curiosity and modest eloquence.
Gene Cernan asked his fellow Apollo 10 astronauts about the moon: "Where do you suppose a planet like this comes from? Do you suppose it broke away from the Earth like a lot of people say?" John Young replied: "I ain't no cosmologist, I don't care nothing about that." Time, July 27 issue
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