Originally posted by: zombie84
I'm listening to the unedited, unaired broadcast--"I am walking on the fucking moon...jesus christ in a chicken basket!"

In the end I guess the whole "we must go to the moon" thing reveals itself as the mere piece of Cold War propoganda that we all hoped it WOULDN'T be. We went there as a symbol of superior power to the communists, and were it not for the Russian space race there would be no incentive to do so. Sad, but all the optimism about it being to do with scientific and exploratory new frontiers I guess is BS in the end. Lets hope the terrorists vow to make a trip to mars--its the only way we'll get there!

Are you that much of an ass? There were scientific and exploratory reasons. If there weren't, we would've just kept sending unmanned vehicles. Yeah, the primary reason to get a man to the moon was to show that we could do it. The Soviets had the same reason, they were just a lot unsafer about it. Go ahead and read up on the Russian space program sometime. They killed plenty of men in their quest to be first. That's the only reason they were first in a lot of things except the moon. Whoever could reach the moon first could also launch missiles at their enemy. Thankfully we won the race. Everything after that was icing on the cake and pretty much for scientific study.

It took 11 missions (crew died in the first and the next 6 were unmanned) to get to the moon. Everything after that was pretty much for scientific research. Do you really think the military would've funded something like that? They just wanted a rocket they could fire on Russia from the US.

The terrorist will never make a trip to Mars. They're to busy fighting themselves and everyone else to pull something like that off.