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Originally Posted by Swift
Not to completely hijack this thread, there are some who fondly remember Apollo, wish it had continued, but do not think the shuttle was "a bore". The shuttle program did some pretty exciting things too.
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Your point of view seems reasonable. The Apollo did great things, shuttle did a few interesting things like service HST. I'm just impatient and don't buy the arguments that the Apollo missions needed to be curtailed in favor of the shuttle. I would have liked to see a moon base by 2000 (in fact, in 1969 I was POSITIVE there would have been).
Back then I was naive to how small minded people like congressmen were. I figured that if this absolutely unbelievable accomplishment of putting 12 men on the moon occured, it was impossible the leadership wouldn't get on the bandwagon and really go for manned exploration of space. I now understand the full dimensions of the massive ignorance and short sightedness of so many in leadership and society.