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From: ecl@mtgzz.UUCP (e.c.leeper)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re:  loncrete
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Date: Wed, 5-Feb-86 22:58:40 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  5 22:58:40 1986
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> 	Can someone please explain to me why we can't go to the moon before the
> year 2000?  In 1962, Kennedy committed us to landing on the Moon within eight
> years; we had to invent the technology and run three programs (Mercury,
> Gemini, and Apollo), but we did it in seven years despite a major tragedy
> that stopped the program for a year.  Now.  The engineering is done.  The
> Apollo/Saturn design is proven technology.  Granted the production lines
> have to be re-tooled to do it, I still can't undertand why we can't go to
> the Moon again in five years.  Anybody?

We can't go to the moon in five years because we (the collective populace of
the United States) don't want to.  If we wanted to we could.  As Lawrence of
Arabia said of Aqaba, I say, "[The moon] is that way.  It only takes going
there."

					Evelyn C. Leeper
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