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Headline: New York Times, 3/30/2026
Kenneth Chang reports:
“Make no mistake,” Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas and the chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, said during a hearing in September. “We are in a new space race with China. And if we fail, there will be a bad moon on the rise.”
But if you ask people on the street what they think NASA should be doing, they might not put sending astronauts to the moon at the top of the list of priorities.
Indeed, it might be near the bottom. [emphasis added]
Which is confirmed in a 2023 survey by Pew Research. (arrows added)
Brief history of Tang as provided by Wikipedia:
General Foods Corporation food scientist William A. Mitchell and chemist William Bruce James formulated and trademarked orange Tang in 1957. Tang entered test markets in 1958 and was available to the public beginning in 1959.
Tang was used by early NASA crewed space flights. In 1962, when Mercury astronaut John Glenn conducted eating experiments in orbit, Tang was selected for the menu; it was also used during some Gemini flights, and has also been carried aboard numerous Space Shuttle missions.
