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Originally Posted by sammyg2
The DREAM was actually a lie, a way to fool the American public into dumping an unprecedented amount of money into a weapons program to develop ICBMs to blow up the soviet union before they blew us up.
A concept I supported, but not in the veiled disguise of a race to the moon.
And perpetuating that lie has cost us trillions.
hey but whatever makes you FEEL good ..............
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Would not the ICBM program have proceded even without the moon shot? Was not the Apollo program built with the existing US ICBM technology? The military, parallel to the NASA program, also had a secret astronaut crew in place for military maned space missions.
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Last edited by porwolf; 07-26-2013 at 03:20 PM..
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