von Braun looked to the sky and stated that if a 1 mile diameter metallic asteroid were mined for its iron ore and nickle ore you would have a 500 year supply of stainless steel.
He and Dr Gerald O'Neil a Princeton Phycist formed the Nation Space Society and Dr O"Neils book "The High Frontier" said that if a proper space program were formed the profit would be out of this world.
That "little" computer that NASA ordered for the Apollo program was put on the shelf when the Apollo program was cancelled by those heads up their butts Congress Critters.
The two Steves bought the computer chip for $550.00 and made the first Apple computer. What resulted was the Greates Jobs program of the 20th century, (get it Jobs= jobs~) How many of the 100 million + people working is the US have jobs resulting form this electronic miracle my guess is 25 - 35 million people.
I say go get that asteroid.
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I said it before and it's still Ad Astra!
The two Steves bought the computer chip for $550.00 and made the first Apple computer.
Well, that makes for an interesting story, but Apollo was cancelled years before the MOS 6502 was even designed. wiki for 6502