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Old 05-14-2013, 03:25 PM  
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Originally Posted by helterskelter808 View Post
We did it every few months under Nixon, no problem, with relatively backward technology (so backward we apparently couldn't even do slow motion effects).

And yet zero times under any other President, with far more advanced technology at their disposal. More advanced technology that just ten years ago couldn't even lift astronauts a few hundred miles above Earth and back safely, let alone the moon.

Yeah, that makes sense.
things changed, you know that. we made the goal. hoorah. mission ACCOMPLISHED.

in the meantime, while we were landing on the moon, we were also bombing cambodia. there was a gas shortage, etc........hello new world. priorities changed, spending 5% of the budget on going to the moon just to take pictures of going to the moon was no longer a priority.
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