[Bernard]

Kennedy's inauguration address would have been January 24, 1961 so the first landing in July 1069 was 8 1/2 years later. But, there was a lot of work done before Kennedy's speech. And this was a different country then. More get it done and less get the paperwork done first.

On the other hand, it would be nice to see it happen during President Trump's second term.....

[PIF]

Kennedy’s inauguration address would have been January 24, 1961 so the first landing in July 1069

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July 1069? hehheheh over 892 years earlier - those guys in the middle ages were just genius ... :)

It was a totally different NASA also ... by 1970 paper work motif had mostly superseded the get-it-done ethic

Now its all paperwork climate change and muslims - out of the handful of engineers the US produces annually, the few engineers interested in space go in robotics, while many of the mission directors jealously guard the information they discover. Then there are all the black projects ... Zuma comes to mind. The military will probably get there before NASA (even-though NASA is part of DOD).

[Celtic Conservative]

The big difference now is that it’s existing technology- it’s been done before.

CC

[John W]

JFK Moon Speech September 1962

https://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/ricetalk.htm