Celebrating the Safe Return of Apollo 11 Astronauts

You and your boyfriend live upstate, but he dragged you all the way down to the big apple for the ticker tape parade celebrating Apollo 11. You want to make him understand how the space race is wasting money that could be used to help starving Americans. While the US government is landing on the moon, innocent people are dying by the thousands in South East Asia But it's too loud for an argument, and there's too much going on. After the parade, the New York Times wrote, with peeling bells, popping champagne corks, cheers, prayers and firecrackers A jubilant nation celebrated the safe return of the Apollo 11 astronauts. For the majority of Americans, Apollo