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Originally Posted by Yannox
But as Kennedy said in his 1961 Moon speech:
"I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth"!
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There would have been two ways out, actually. Technically, 'the decade' (note that Kennedy did
not say 'the 1960s') ran from 1961 - 1970, just as the first year of the 21st century was 2001. Plus Kennedy made that speech in 1961, so you could also call 'the decade' ten years from the date of his speech. So that gives two ways to spin an Apollo 10 disaster (or Apollo 11, come to that) as long as NASA could have got back on track before the end of 1970...