[hinckley buzzard]

I’ve always seen Apollo as having been a wasteful showboat

You are too young to remember the Cold War atmosphere of the sixties aren't you. Either that or you're spinning yarn for some reason.

[decimon]

You are too young to remember the Cold War atmosphere of the sixties aren't you.

I'm 64 and I remember the times. I remember that JFK ran on a BS platform of Eisenhower having let us fall behind in a missile gap with the Soviets. That he parlayed that BS into the Apollo program.

What do you remember?