brooklyn, NY
Biography:
The US manned space program has always been seen as one of the highest achievements of our society. We went to the moon with little more than slide rules and vacuum tubes,developing whatever technology was needed as we went along to meet a tremendous goal. Now, in these days of bursting bubbles and bailouts where we have an abundance of technology, much of which was a direct result of this earlier progress in the space program, I see a great irony. We have more than we need to keep us in space and possibly go further. Yet we do not have the means to support the technology and missions. What do you do with an excess of knowledge and technology when you have a struggling economy? What does it say about a country that was once able give seemingly limitless man hours and funds to a now aging and declining program that has been deemed unsafe and too expensive. I recently traveled to the kennedy space center to tour the grounds and view the final launch of OV-104 (aka shuttle Atlantis). Seeing the KSC in what appears to be a transition from technological powerhouse to tourist attraction/theme park was quite bewildering, ( the KSC is no longer funded with govt. money- only proceeds from the visitor's center, gift shops etc.. go directly to funding the center) These photos are the beginning of a project that explores the uncertain future of the once dominant US manned space flight program
Website: http://cargocollective.com/eric_luc
