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Default Thoughts on 1969

H the K wrote:
Frogwatch wrote:
I remember frantically mowing lawns and collecting old coke bottles so
I could replace the 2 bad tubes on our old B&W TV set so I could watch
the moon landing. I was 13 and had just been with a scout group to
Titusville, FL to watch Apollo 11 take off and I had models of the
Saturn V and LEM and could quote facts and stats on the Saturn V. It


If there is any hope, it will not be found in the labrynthine
bureaucracy of NASA but in the minds of entrepreneurs willing to take
risks. Anybody with any remaining hope for the future will do all
they can to keep NASA and the govt off the backs of space
entrepreneurs.



Too bad Bush blew the national wad on his wars of convenience. Now we
have to spend what is left and what we can borrow to fix his messes. No
money for space now.


I believe we have done nothing significant in space since long before
the Bushes. Clinton was not interested in the space program since there
were no skirts on the Moon or Mars