Hi All

I was reading an old "Analog" and discovered a board-regular's 'retrospective' essay on what the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz mission brought into being - early cooperation between the US and USSR, plus an eventual international Mars mission. Shame none of it turned out that way, but I do wonder what went wrong.

Mark Wade provocatively points out that an International Space Station project could have been launched using the second 'Skylab' back in the late 1970s, for lot less money too. A shame too that none of that was considered acceptable at the time either.

Mars didn't become a big spur to planetary exploration because of the 'Viking' Project's null biology results (but fantastic science.) That might have turned the tide when it was really needed in the late 1970s. That and Vietnam sucking up all the bucks.

A bit like Iraq at present.

Adam