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To: TheOldLady

If we had kept pace with the moon landings we would probably have a permanent base and possible manufacturing getting going by now.


5 posted on 06/08/2011 3:36:58 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: cripplecreek

You’re absolutely right.

And JFK is spinning in his grave.


10 posted on 06/08/2011 3:52:48 PM PDT by TheOldLady (Freepmail me to get on or off the ZOT Lightning ping list.)
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To: cripplecreek
If we had kept pace with the moon landings we would probably have a permanent base and possible manufacturing getting going by now.

Without the Soviets pushing us it wasn't going to happen, because in and of itself, it wasn't economically sustainable, and neither did the space program buy enough votes.

11 posted on 06/08/2011 3:58:48 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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