[wendy1946]

The thing I find troubling.....

I mean, from the end of WW-II until 1970 or thereabouts the idea of getting to the moon was the ultimate goal of science and man's mission on Earth. There were times when it seemed that's all we ever heard about in the news. And then the one big step for mankind thing like we've just crossed the threshold and the future of space travel is wide open and all that...

And then one or two more trips to do the same basic thing and then the whole thing is yesterday's news: been there, done that, now it's time to get on with perfecting our welfare state and fighting little demokkkrat wars and what not. The whole thing just goes away.

I mean, is that believable, or could it be that whatever those guys saw up there messed their minds and their paradigms so badly that the whole thing got made into a black project and we never hear about it any more? Who knows....

[tlb]

>>>And then one or two more trips to do the same basic thing and then the whole thing is yesterday’s news: been there, done that, now it’s time to get on with perfecting our welfare state

Walter Mondale as a US senator led the fight to kill the moon program before we ever even reached lunar orbit. He came close to succeeding, especially in the months after the loss of the Apollo 1 crew. No aliens necessary.

>>>forbidden planet?

And a dozen others, including episodes of Twilight Zone and 3-D Danny’s spaceship. Sometimes just for variety they turned it over and it flew bottom side up. They definitely got their moneys worth out of that prop.

[SunkenCiv]

LBJ tried to implement his so-called War on Poverty, escalate in Vietnam, and carry out the Apollo program; after Apollo 11 (the first of the six landings) and the winning of the Moon race / space race, LBJ’s micromanaging the quagmire in Vietnam, and the failure of the war on poverty, it seemed like a great idea to dump Apollo, which was successful.

Re: black project, here’s no way to hide a Saturn V launch. The only manmade sound louder is (or perhaps was, since the Shuttle has more pop) detonation of an atomic bomb.

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And then one or two more trips to do the same basic thing and then the whole thing is yesterday's news: been there, done that, now it's time to get on with perfecting our welfare state and fighting little demokkkrat wars and what not. The whole thing just goes away.

Sorta like 9/11?

I mean, is that believable, or could it be that whatever those guys saw up there messed their minds and their paradigms so badly that the whole thing got made into a black project and we never hear about it any more? Who knows....

Not me...