[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.

[wendy1946]

I didn't say it was anything more than a conspiracy theory...

If I were going to manage such a program, the launch would likely be from some remote Pacific island.

[null and void]

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.

Yeah. I vividly remember watching the first Saturn V launch on TV, only to be distracted (and pulled outside) by hearing the launch live, loud enough to overwhelm the volume on the TV. From 125 miles away...