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It's the most epic thing mankind has ever done, and almost all of them decided to cry about it:

Charles Evers **(tiny violin starts playin):**

"The eyes of most men are looking up at the moon today. I am looking at the earth our astronauts have left behind .... As a daring adventure, this exploration of the moon compares with the voyage of Columbus in 1492. Like our astronauts, Columbus left behind a world crowded with people who didn't have enough to eat, people who had no decent clothes to put on their backs, people who had no doctor to look after them when they were sick, people who had to live in a house with holes in the roof and rates under the floor, people who had no place to send their children to get a good education.... The billions of dollars being spent on this moon exploration program means that it will be even longer before America begins to keep her promises to the poor. America needs to look at the earth, not at space. Before one more dollar is spent on outer space, we must make sure that not one child here on earth goes to a dinner table with no food on it."

Jesse Jackson **(GIB ME DATS > ROCKET SHIBS)**

"How can this nation swell and stagger [sic] with technological pride when it has a spiritual will so crippled, when it is so weak, so wicked, so blinded and misdirected in its priorities? While they can send men to the moon or deadly missiles to Moscow or toward Mao, we can't get foodstuffs across town to starving folks in the teeming Ghettos .... Even as astronauts stride forth in the headying atmosphere of the moon, blindfolded America moves toward the whirlwind of another long, fiery summer and on to more campus rebellions and bloodletting come September."

Walter Burghardt:

"But I am concerned about our priorities. The gut question is, what do we - Government and people with power and people with money - what do we consider important? Are things more important than people? I simply do not believe that a program comparable to the moon landing cannot be projected around poverty, the war, crime, and so on. So, when the first man walks on the moon, my joy will be tempered by sadness. For I shall be thinking of men who still walk this earth."

Lewis Mumford:

"If a successful moon landing leads to a further expansion of space exploration, with a further drain on more important human enterprises and a further neglect of the conditions essential for human survival and development, we may look forward to a corresponding increase in social demoralization and psychological regression."

Saul Alinsky:

"I wish to Christ **[should have bowed the knee instead]** they'd take the South Vietnamese Government and stick them in the capsule. Send them to the moon one way. That's the only way to get rid of them."

David Riesman **(have some humility goyim!)**

"In world terms, the United States perhaps needs the triumph least of all. From the point of view of other countries we already have too much power: perhaps we need some humility. I think we Americans tend to crow and brag rather less than we once did, but what remains is unpleasant; possibly, a triumph in space may make us more willing to pursue disarmament seriously with the Soviet Union and a political settlement in Vietnam."

SOURCE: New York Times, July 21, 1969, 6-7