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Re:Nasa head of human spaceflight resigns days before 'histo... by nickik on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @03:24PM (#23250686)
Johnson is also basically the reason why most of this happened at all.
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Re:Nasa head of human spaceflight resigns days before 'histo... by nickff on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @03:29PM (#23250752)
How so?

Johnson definitely did a lot of pork-barreling with the space program funds, but I think the main reason that Apollo went forward was because Kennedy had espoused a grand vision shortly before being shot. Without Lee Harvey Oswald, I doubt that Neil and Buzz would have made it to the moon, especially given Apollo 1.

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Re:Nasa head of human spaceflight resigns days before 'histo... by nickik on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @04:38PM (#23251483)
Well money is important and it was Johnson who pushed the idea on Kennedy. Kennedy initial thought the idea pretty nonsense, Johnson early on saw NASA a soft-power instrument.
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