They promise dus resumed flights by 2000

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Socrates II — 7/20/2009 1:42:10 AM (archived)

I distinctly remember after Apollo 17 being promised by some official on television that
manned lunar flights would resume by the year 2000. This after being promised just a
few years earlier there would be lunar bases and manned Mars expeditions by the middle
of the 1980s.

And 2001: A Space Odyssey really messed with our heads.

And during the Apollo 11 mission, Nixon said we would find alien life by 2000.

Already 10 years overdue on that later "promise."

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NASA's needs - Raoul - 7/19/2009 9:57:03 AM
- Jobs, yes. I read that Project Apollo hired over 400,000 men and women. - Jefferson-Washington. - 7/19/2009 9:31:06 PM
  - SpaceX will send people back to the Moon with less than 5,000 employees. - Lee - 7/20/2009 2:40:24 AM
- Tom Wolfe's Right Stuff - phil - 7/19/2009 3:58:26 PM
  - So many seem to forget - Raoul - 7/19/2009 7:47:03 PM
    - Revised memory - phil - 7/19/2009 9:09:49 PM
      - They promise dus resumed flights by 2000 - Socrates II - 7/20/2009 1:42:10 AM
      - re: Re-revised memory - Raoul - 7/19/2009 11:13:18 PM
        
        re: Re-revised memory - phil - 7/20/2009 12:50:16 AM
        
        Saturn V was used 17 times - Raoul - 7/20/2009 9:23:08 AM
        
        Correction: 13 times and 16 or 17 built (n/t) - Raoul - 7/20/2009 9:29:22 AM
        
        Are the SRBs really the Achillies heel? - Lee - 7/20/2009 2:50:21 AM

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