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Originally Posted by Slon
That is why I said you should have financed it privately, unless of course you mean to say EVERYONE in the US supported it.
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I say what I mean, and what I said was "
Except for the fact that almost the whole country was behind the space program."
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Why exactly would have been necessary to come back? And why was it necessary to show that you could do so?
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As I said, it would serve as a deterrent. There were fears of orbiting platforms with nuclear weapons, and there were also fears (probably groundless, but there were real fears at the time) that The USSR would have a base on the Moon. We WERE enemies at the time, you know.
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Uh, why?But they DID have the superiority in space at some point. First man in space, for instance. What you mean to say is "superiority in first man in space," perhaps?
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Don't tell me what I mean to say. If you're such a mind reader you ought to know what I think of that shit right about now.