Try a catalogue of von Braun's war crimes
as one of the "good" reasons it never saw print.
You're superficially correct about the "space race", but completely oblivious as to why that "race" took place in the first place. You might want to familiarize yourself with the work of Edward Claudiovich Tichonravov (sp?), before you spout off on space histroy again, but it's not likely.
Again, a little reading, and not very much of it, would show you that the idea of an easily habitable Mars underlay that race, and was key to the engineers obsession with manned spaceflight. Chr**t, you don't even need to read, you could simply watch the Disney von Braun specials on television.
Oh yeah, I've really enjoyed reading all about the "realism" of the Mars Society "research".
EP