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Re:NASA admits it doesn’t have the funding to land humans on... by mikeash on Thursday July 13, 2017 @10:21AM (#14761452)
I'm pretty sure the big reason Apollo was successful was that they had enough support to get the job done within that 8-year period. And, no surprise, Nixon's election heralded the end, although inertia kept it moving for a few years.
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Re:NASA admits it doesn’t have the funding to land humans on... by ApolloFortyNine on Thursday July 13, 2017 @11:33AM (#14762140)
The Soviet Union pretty much quitting a year or so after the US landed on the moon is what did it.
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Re:NASA admits it doesn’t have the funding to land humans on... by gozur88 on Thursday July 13, 2017 @12:32PM (#14762697)
But the same people were in Congress, pretty much.

The problem is the public lost interest in the moon. It's a big dusty rock with nothing much to recommend the billions we were spending to go there.

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