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Originally Posted by Scribbler1
Except for the fact that almost the whole country was behind the space program. To us back then, that WAS a good use for the money.
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Then they should have financed it privately.
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That, plus the fact that we felt letting the Soviet Union get there first and then claim the Moon for Mother Russia would have been unacceptable.
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What exactly does putting a flag on the moon do? "Claiming" it? How do you claim it if you can't live there and defend it? What difference does it make?
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Besides, we HAVE been paid back in research and invention spun off from the space program.
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Are you saying it could not have been done privately or without going to space/to the moon?