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Old January 21st 09, 08:52 PM posted to sci.military.naval,sci.space.history
Derek Lyons
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Default JFK's greatest achievements/Apollo (Was: Deep Apologies to everyone....)

"Roger Conroy" wrote:

The Apollo program ended up being just a flash in the pan, nothing of any
serious consequence followed on from it.


It was never intended to be anything but a flash in the pan - the
program lived up to Kennedy's promise. That it failed to live up to
the utterly unfounded and irrational goals attached to it ex post
facto by others is not Kennedy's fault.

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