One of the last things my grandfather John Dos Passos wrote was an ode to the Apollo Program. It’s so relevant, reminding us what we can do when we overcome tribalism and combine our strengths: “In our century we have seen everything that is hideous in man come to the fore: obsessed leaders butchering helpless populations, the cowardice of the led, the shoddy selfinterest, the easy hatreds that any buffoon can arouse who bellows out the slogans, public derision of everything mankind has learned through the centuries to consider decent and true; but now, all at once, like the blue and white stippled bright Earth the astronauts saw rise above the rim of the moon’s grisly skeleton there emerges a fresh assertion of man’s spirit.”