Originally posted by: zombie84
That's all I was saying. That's why we've scarcely gone back, why support for it pettered out to the point where we couldn't afford it after we had showed the Russians and planted the flag, and why there's not any further serious interest in the matter. Of course there is scientific matters before and since--NASA is not a US propaganda agency--but the primary motivation for "the space race" and thus the lunar landing was Cold War related (thats why it was a space race--you have to have an opponent); it took national and presidential backing, and it had very little to do with the exploration itself of simply going to the moon for the sake of it, the push that led to the support needed to actually accomplish the feat was entirely Cold War related. No need to get your panties in a wad for pointing out accepted historic fact.
Originally posted by: lordjedi
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.
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.
That's all I was saying. That's why we've scarcely gone back, why support for it pettered out to the point where we couldn't afford it after we had showed the Russians and planted the flag, and why there's not any further serious interest in the matter. Of course there is scientific matters before and since--NASA is not a US propaganda agency--but the primary motivation for "the space race" and thus the lunar landing was Cold War related (thats why it was a space race--you have to have an opponent); it took national and presidential backing, and it had very little to do with the exploration itself of simply going to the moon for the sake of it, the push that led to the support needed to actually accomplish the feat was entirely Cold War related. No need to get your panties in a wad for pointing out accepted historic fact.
Sorry about that. I was just pissed off with all of sean's moronic posting lately and you happen to get in the way. I guess I totally misread your tone. Again, sorry about that.