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Why did Richard Nixon cancel the Saturn V?

Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 03:47:13 2022 No.14219700 View Reply Original Report

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It cost about as much to fly as the space shuttle. Why cancel it?

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Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 03:48:53 No.14219706 Report

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Because if we kept the same LV with minor changes there wouldn't be billions in contracts to give to donors.

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Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 03:55:08 No.14219723 Report

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>>14219700
Saturn V wasn't his program. Politicians love projects they can take credit for so they prefer new things over improved versions of something the guy before them implemented. If the Shuttle worked as proposed to him, it would have been his legacy (if none of that Watergate stuff happened).

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Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 04:04:00 No.14219759 Report

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>>14219700
>"We beat the Ruskies to the moon. Let's do a few victory laps and then toss this shit in a museum"

The US government's attitude on space exploration in a nutshell.

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Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 04:07:49 No.14219770 Report

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There were domestic issues to deal with. The country went to shit in the 1970s.

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Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 04:24:35 No.14219818 Report

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Because no one gave a damn about Apollo after they landed on the Moon. So he needed something newer, better, different. Not his fault that Space Shuttle took over a decade to develop, and the result was mere shell of what was once promised.

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Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 06:19:03 No.14220072 Report

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Space shuttle was also prohibitively expensive.

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Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 07:16:39 No.14220175 Report

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That plus a huge drop off in public interest after the first couple of missions. And a concern if they kept flying it they would eventually lose a crew.

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Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 11:00:35 No.14220447 Report

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Great empires spend vast amount of money, just look up total u.s Aid to nigeria, a country most Americans can’t find on a map. And we do this for many African countries, At the time the wars and recession needed a few public cuts to the budget to shore up the coffers for the 1980#

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