The Legacies of Apollo 11

A personal perspective on Apollo 11, and restoring the American Dream

David Guston
OneZero
Published in
7 min readJul 18, 2019

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Aldrin Gazes at Tranquility Base. Source: NASA

MyMy grandfather Abe Gussowski was born in a shtetl near what is now the Poland-Lithuania border, a couple of years after the Wright brothers flew their first powered aircraft. He survived more than a decade after the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969. Struggling from immigrant child, to the Merchant Marines…

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David Guston
OneZero
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Professor at Arizona State University and director of its School for the Future of Innovation in Society; contributor to https://slate.com/author/david-guston