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mchanson
on May 23, 2012
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Build the "USS Enterprise" in 20 years, for 1 tril...
The public was not that excited about space in the 60s either.
http://si.academia.edu/RogerLaunius/Papers/93299/_Public_Opi...
smackay
on May 23, 2012
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Perhaps not in the USA but in the UK everyone I knew was glued to the TV to watch the Apollo launches. Of course there was a big layer of Cold War propaganda added, but it was an exciting time.
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