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.
Yes. By sharing outer space: I mean with countries led by anti-American regimes.
Whatever happens in space, I would want the U.S. to be the undisputed leaders.