Thread: The moon is the door to the solar system
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2010-05-16 , 18:46
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Originally Posted by Icyseanfitz View Post
why did the staurn rocket program get dropped if it could leave low earth orbit wouldnt it have made sense to try and keep that going?? probably cost again
Because we went to the moon before we really knew what we were doing. We took huge risks and spent big bucks to beat the russians and it was partly due to dumb luck that we never had a disaster on the moon. Sooner or later we would have.

Once we beat the russians, LEO was seen as an affordable place to learn how to live in space for extended periods of time so that when we did go back to the moon, we could stay there.