Hi BV It all came down to politics. New brains came into NASA ,and they
took one look at the Saturn and said it had no wings.(they were aircraft
engineers.from calif.) Just think if they did not scrape the Saturn,and
just improved on it(let it evolve) We would have gotten a bigger bang
for our bucks than staying in low earth orbit for 36 years(yes?) We
missed the chance of a life time to have as you say a base on the moon.
What we have now is nothing. And that is very sad. Bert