How about something simple. It was no longer was politically fashionable for the right and particularly the left to support manned space travel. Remember Ralph Abernathy’s Poor People’s Caravan to Kennedy Space Center during the last Apollo Moon mission. It got more coverage then the Apollo mission - Apollo 17. I remember that ! Then add in “environmental issues” & spend money on earth was the hue & cry. What money NASA had went into the very poorly designed flying bomb I mean shuttle. Soon the public was herded into national navel gazing.
Garble !
“.. It was no longer was politically fashionable ..” should read “.. It was no longer politically fashionable .. “
How about something simple. It was no longer was politically fashionable for the right and particularly the left to support manned space travel
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How about a nice cover story - directly from the MSN to you. Have you heard the one about the 2020 election?
Herding people into navel gazing is correct - politicians cannot have people running around 10s of thousands or millions of miles away they cannot control; that would be actual freedom, you know, the antithesis of the Deep State.
I watched one of the moon landings in a small Mexican village accessible only by horseback with the entire village. You should have seen their faces - they had Hope for the first time in their lives. Coverage of all the landings was world-wide, not just in the States. I watched the first televised Russian rocket launch in Turkey; everyone in Sinope Provence had seen the US Apollo launches.