Re: Fly me to the Moon
"Nixon was the one that killed Apollo, killed the Mars follow-on, and settled on the flawed and under-funded STS development."
He also killed MSR R&D, mostly because it didn't create jobs for his friends in SoCal (who were working on sodium cooled breeder reactors - using sodum works well as long as you don't expose it to air and _every_ single liquid sodium system has ended up doing that) but also because most of the military were opposed to it due to the fact that you can't extract weapons material from the fuelling/defuelling processes.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
