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To: Moonman62

I don’t think that Ike would have put nearly the resources into a moon landing that Kennedy did. There was no reason to.


16 posted on 05/25/2011 8:17:20 AM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon
I don’t think that Ike would have put nearly the resources into a moon landing that Kennedy did.

What do you think Apollo and its Saturn boosters were all about?

Truth be told, the funding and political motivation was due more to the Soviet space program than anything else.

18 posted on 05/25/2011 10:45:26 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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