The National Cancer Moonshot, an initiative headed by Vice President Joe Biden, sounds like it aims to cure cancer once and for all. Look at the details, though, and you’ll realize it lacks that noble goal and the singular focus of Present John F. Kennedy’s original moonshot — putting a man on the moon by 1969. Here’s how the vice president could reshape his initiative to match the focus of the original moonshot and make a real difference: aim to cure a single currently untreatable type of cancer. A key figure in American history links both the real moonshot and the one I am proposing: Neil Armstrong, the astronaut who first set foot on lunar soil.
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