The two then went into the living room and watched The Brady Bunch, their favorite television program.
“Mom, I want to cut my hair in a Pixie like Mrs. Brady.”
“Not while I am alive.”
The astronomer and philosopher Carl Sagan, in the beginning, misunderstood, again, the space program, this time Apollo. He thought the Apollo program had something to do with science. Then he realized that the program was really about the nuclear arms race, and that if one of the conditions of going to the moon was that no science be done, the United States still would have gone. Many wondered why Sagan just finally came to the realization. My God, Mercury and Gemini, the two manned space flight programs prior to Apollo, were all about that also, weren’t they? As a result, he opposed Apollo at first, belie
