"Jorge R. Frank" wrote in message
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On 11/28/2011 08:00 PM, Matt Wiser wrote:

Thanks for the update. Then it's LBJ we should blame for shutting down
Saturn. You may now print out a pic of LBJ at leisure and throw
however many darts at the man as you see fit.

Nixon bears about as much responsibility for the end of Apollo/Saturn as
Obama does for the end of shuttle. In both cases it was not a decision to
cancel the program; it was a choice not to reverse a predecessor's
decision. Which still means that both men "bought into" the decisions, in
my opinion.


Personally I'd argue Obama is a bit more culpable as I believe (I will admit
to not checking the timeline too closely) it would have been easier for
Obama to reverse the shuttle decision (or even to simply get a couple more
flights with some of the remaining tanks) than it would have been for Nixon
to reverse the Saturn V assembly line decision.

(Though I still think we should have flown Apollos 18 and 19 or Apollo 18
and Skylab B).


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