Re:Nasa head of human spaceflight resigns days before 'histo...
by nickff on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @03:29PM
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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.
Re:Nasa head of human spaceflight resigns days before 'histo...
by nickik on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @04:38PM
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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.
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.