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Requiem for a Dream 2

Eric Obame

December 11 1972
The crew of Apollo 17 landed on the moon
It was the last time that we stepped on extraterrestrial soil
I grew up dreaming about Mars, and the stars
About moon bases, and deep space stations
About fusion reactors, and starships using laser beams
To sail from one planet to the next at a percentage of light speed
I imagined that as an adult, my dreams would be made real
I thought—I hoped that I would get to live some of them
To experience some of them, while awake
But we have not done anything since 1972
Except take better pictures of the cosmos
None of my childhood dreams have come true
I grew up on Star Wars, Star Trek, Buck Rogers, Battlestar Galactica—
A thousand space films, cartoons, and shows
But in the approaching forty years since Apollo 17
We have not moved onto Mars
We have not even been back to the moon
We have simply boarded this international space station
That looks nothing like the one in 2001
December 11 1972
That date was the last time that we accomplished anything outside Earth
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