....as some lind of logical proof we could not do it in 1969.
You have to look at history before making a judgement that we could not go to the moon in 1969. Rocket technology came out of Germany in 1944 when they already had missile rockets - the V2s that they launched on London.
Germany's rocket man, Von Braun, went to USA after WWII and was instrumental in creating America's space program.
So, like so many other things that came out of WWII (radar is another thing), the USA had the rocket technology even before 1950. It took massive amounts of money to launch the Apollo missions, and we just do not have it now - or rather, the tax payers are not willing to fund such a venture.
The argument that how come we did it then, but haven't since also falls down with the demise of the supersonic airliner Concorde. It was 1960's technology (note that the jet engine was also invented in WWII) and Concorde is no more - scrapped. And we do not have another supersonic airliner.
2007-04-24
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