[PISANO]

Almost 40 years ago our astronauts WALKED on the moon. If 'space exploration' would have continued with that same energy and inspiring vision one can only guess where NASA would be today.

It is almost sad looking back to those days...... for it seems we have wasted these 40 years when they [NASA] changed directions and left the FINAL FRONTIER.

[montag813]

Almost 40 years ago our astronauts WALKED on the moon. If 'space exploration' would have continued with that same energy and inspiring vision one can only guess where NASA would be today.

You can thanks Lyndon Baines Johnson for ensuring through his Great Society, that space exploration was doomed. But hey, we have some lovely projects in Newark, Watts and the Bronx to show for it.

[RightWhale]

they [NASA] changed directions and left the FINAL FRONTIER.

Agreed totally, except it wasn't NASA. It was Congress and the White House. NASA just does what they are told.

[SueRae]

In today's 'risk averse' environment, Apollo would have never seen the light of day(from the Moon). Also add all of the countless regulations, specifications, etc. that have been put in place since and I doubt that any hardware would be deemed fit to fly at anywhere close to the cost (in today's dollars) of the entire space program of the 60's.

Wish I had been around to work in the industry back in the 60's instead of 20 years later. Still, the stories told by those that were still thrill me :-)