Posted on 07/02/2009 6:52:22 PM PDT by KevinDavis
Since the crew of Apollo 17 returned from the moon in December 1972, no human has ever left low-Earth orbit. Five space shuttles, scores of Russian Soyuz capsules, the International Space Station, and more than 450 men and women have left the Earth since Apollo, but all have been bound to a small shell of space just outside our atmosphere.
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Helium-3. Whoever owns the moon owns the Saudi Arabia of the last half of the 21st century.
The Chinese are simply thinking more strategically than the United States is.
I'd say the Apollo program provided very little in return for the enormous cost of the endeavor.
That's just silly. Even ignoring everything we got from Apollo, the cost was a fraction of what we spend on Medicare in any given year.
Sadly, I saw Challenger, too.
When they send MORE THAN 12 men to the moon and bring everyone safely back like we did, then I might be impressed.
Til then, don't wake me up.
The Ruskies attempted a moon landing at the same time we did. Theirs crashed and burned. But being a totalitarian state, they were able to hide it for 50 years.
The rest of the world will NEVER best us in technology.
Course, they could hire American quislings like Bernie Schwartz at Loral to improve their technology ...
From now on, we live in a world where man has walked on the moon. And it's not a miracle, we just decided to go.
Jim Lovell in the movie Apollo 13.
We've decided to go back, if Zero doesn't dismantle the program.
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