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Originally Posted by Evans, Marv
Amazing how the government took many years, huge organization & beaurocracy (sp.?), thousands of people, huge amounts of tax dollars, etc.,etc., and some private corporation comes in after a few years and announces going to the moon in a year.
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Huge difference is the time frame. Now days partly because of the NASA moon missions anyone can go buy a single smart phone with WAY more computing prowess than all of NASA had available in the 1960s. No one on the planet had any idea how to plot the trajectory to and from the moon. They had to invent that. All NASA had done was launch Alan Shepard into a sub orbital flight when Kennedy said we should go to the moon. We were not sure if humans could survive the time in space at all back then.
Also NASA landed on the moon and got every single Apollo astronaut back home safely.
The Russians gave it their best effort and never even sent a human into orbit around the moon.
Only 12 humans have ever orbited the moon.