power always seems to instill a firm belief in one’s own immortality.

Root n ROM I guess

My personal opinion of it is that it was either a reaffirmation of the tech need to do it, in which case its kinda sad that we haven’t progressed beyond that for the last 50 years. The other idea I have of it is that it was the simplest and fastest way to get eyes on the dark side of the moon to verify or discount the notion of China building a base there