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To: roadcat

DJT like the others has no manned deep space plan - not even a LEO one, nada, nichevo, zip.

We were all fans back then until Nixon killed the whole thing to shore up his imperial presidency.

Actually, it was “Mars by 1965, Saturn by 1970.” But in a major failure of political will Project Orion was killed by the above would-be-king.

Deep space now belongs to the Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and Indians. Navel gazing belongs to the US.


66 posted on 03/24/2016 4:05:32 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: PIF
Actually, it was “Mars by 1965, Saturn by 1970.”

I hadn't heard of that one. Kennedy wanted a man on the Moon by the end of the 1960s decade, which was accomplished. I remember watching the live broadcast of the first Moon landing with my dad, who died a couple years later. It was amazing that he went from an era common with horses, he started driving a Model-T, then used the first radios, then the first TVs, capped by a landing on the Moon - all in his lifetime. I heard projections of getting a man on Mars by 1987. Now we can't even build bridges without Chinese help (most components of our rebuilt SF-Oakland bridge were built in China and shipped here), let alone get into space without Russian help. Sigh...

86 posted on 03/24/2016 7:16:41 PM PDT by roadcat
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