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The Apollo 11 Lunar Module ascent stage, with astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. aboard, is photographed from the Command and Service Modules in lunar orbit in this July, 1969 file handout photo. Astronaut Michael Collins, command module pilot, remained with the Command/Service Module in lunar orbit while Armstrong and Aldrin explored the Moon. The 30th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission is July 16 (launch) and July 20 (landing on the moon). Michael Collins/NASA/Handout via REUTERS
MILAN (Reuters Breakingviews) - In September 1962, then President John F. Kennedy announced that the United States was launching an ambitious plan to land a man on the moon before the end of that decade. The visionary, state-led mission – prompted by Cold War competition – triggered a technological leap that rippled through the economy for decades to come. Governments, economist Mariana Mazzucato contends, should now channel the same spirit and back bold
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Even before the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, capitalism was stuck. It had no answers to a host of problems, including disease, inequality, the digital divide and, perhaps most blatantly, the environmental crisis.
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