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The folks who don't think this was real are not credible anyway.
GOod stuff guys! I bet at the time this was so monumental!
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It was incredible at the time. We were also mired in Vietnam and had some major riots and protests around the country.
But the economy was doing well and the budget was balanced.
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(07-14-2019, 10:05 AM)cincydawg Wrote: It was incredible at the time. We were also mired in Vietnam and had some major riots and protests around the country.
But the economy was doing well and the budget was balanced.
The economy was doing well with domestic manufacturing and American consumption which created jobs. Didn't have the mad imports of today. Steel, shoes, clothing, home construction, etc were all booming well.
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My own opinion is to use robots to explore as needed, not humans. If the aim is colonization, then it changes.
I like the asteroid idea for the latter better, at least as a first step.
Curiously, it takes more energy to get something to crash into the sun than to eject it from the solar system entirely.
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Seems president Nixon had his doubts that they men would return from moon.
https://www.foxnews.com/science/apollo-1...ong-aldrin
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NASA plans a mission to put man on the lunar surface in 2024. I think it's called Artemis 3.
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Since the space shuttle was retired, the US has had no ability to put a human in low earth orbit (other than perhaps with classified missions).
That could change in a few months.
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More on the behind the scenes effort at getting the three men to outer space, two on the moon, and back to terra firma.
https://www.foxnews.com/science/apollo-1...y-insiders
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We're going to hear a lot about NASA and the moon in 2020/2021. Artemis I and II to be exact. Artemis III in 2024.
"boots on the moon by 2024"
-- VP Pence
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