Re:Apollo 14 50th anniversary images find Alan Shepard's bal...
by KineticLensman on Friday February 05, 2021 @06:52AM
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> Had NASA not allowed this, the landings would have continued for at least a few more years.
Hardly. The number of missions was primarily capped by budgetary constraints [0] and the fact that they had only budgeted to build 15 Saturn 5 launchers. Flights after Apollo 17 were used for Skylab and the Apollo-Soyuz mission.
Hardly. The number of missions was primarily capped by budgetary constraints [0] and the fact that they had only budgeted to build 15 Saturn 5 launchers. Flights after Apollo 17 were used for Skylab and the Apollo-Soyuz mission.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canceled_Apollo_missions