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JFK's 'Moon Speech' Still Resonates 50 Years Later

Sep 13, 2012 03:17

Fifty years ago today (Sept. 12), President John F. Kennedy whipped up support for NASA's fledgling Apollo program in a speech that contains perhaps the most famous words he ever uttered about space exploration ( Read more... )

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gloraelin September 13 2012, 12:27:24 UTC

*looks around* Hunh. I thought I saw someone...

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So, there are a number of ways this discussion could go. What if we hadn't, etc etc... but where do you all think we would be if we'd continued the program with the kind of energy that it originally had? If the shuttles hadn't exploded? If the program wasn't scrapped?