All I know is we stopped going to the moon...around Nixon time? I think the Vietnam fall out and post 60s-craziness warped things a bit for the country.
Also the later accidents with the Challenger, Columbia, etc...
:( I don’t want to dwell on the past missed opportunities. I’m also awful in that I don’t like “sharing” outer space haha (until we do whatever it is first.) I’ve turned into a bit of a “Cold Warrior” these days haha.
I think the Vietnam fall out and post 60s-craziness warped things a bit for the country.
“I’m also awful in that I don’t like “sharing” outer space haha”
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While the first sentence that is certainly true, the ‘warp’ occurred prior to Nam, as I tried to point out. By the Challenger, Columbia disasters the US had long vacated any vanguard in manned exploration.
As for the second sentence, I’m not sure what that means.
The Apollo program was canceled in 1972 with Apollo 17. Nixon was president.
LBJ hated seeing all those funds allocated for NASA
that could have gone for the Great Society.