This week marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, which was the first time humans set foot on the moon. The United States remains the only country to have put people on the moon, and, as of 2018, the large majority of Americans consider it essential that […] Read more »
Moon landing is still a source of pride
Apollo 11’s mission still inspires optimism: eight in ten Americans say it represents the kind of achievement the U.S. is likely to achieve again someday. For many, it still towers over other events that have come in the ensuing fifty years. Most over age 65, and a plurality of all […] Read more »
For First Time, Majority in U.S. Backs Human Mission to Mars
Americans’ views about landing an astronaut on Mars have shifted, with a majority now favoring the idea for the first time since 1969 and 1999, when majorities opposed the idea. CONT. Justin McCarthy, Gallup Read more »
50 Years After Moon Landing, Support for Space Program High
With the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing approaching, a record-high 64% say the U.S. space program’s costs are justifiable. Americans’ views have grown increasingly positive over various Apollo 11 anniversaries since 1979. CONT. Justin McCarthy, Gallup Read more »
Space tourism? Majority of Americans say they wouldn’t be interested
… About four-in-ten Americans (42%) say they would definitely or probably be interested in orbiting the Earth in a spacecraft in the future, while roughly six-in-ten (58%) say they would not be interested. CONT. Mark Strauss & Brian Kennedy, Pew Read more »
A record number of Americans viewed the 2017 solar eclipse
Eighty-eight percent of American adults viewed the August total solar eclipse directly or electronically. This audience of 215 million adults is nearly twice the size of the viewership of recent Super Bowl football games. A national study of American adults conducted by the University of Michigan under a cooperative agreement […] Read more »