NASA needs bold leadership — or we’ll be watching on TV while Beijing lands on the moon

For more than six decades, NASA has been the world’s lodestar for exploration. We designed the rockets, trained the astronauts and landed on the moon when the idea was barely a decade old. But somewhere between Apollo 17’s dust cloud and today’s paperwork pile, we’ve lost the rhythm that made “We choose to go to the moon” more than just a speech.