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Momas
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| going to the moon was always about the space race and being the first on the moon.many believe once that was achieved there was no need to go back.considering the technology today i do wonder why they dont go back considering its safer than 40 years ago. |
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greeney2
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Location: USA
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| Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 2:10 pm Post subject: |
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I think we learned a tremendous amount going to the moon. If you consider the entire effort beginning with the Mercury program, Gemeni, Appollo, and skylab, they led to what evolved into the shuttle program. An amazing amount of technology evolved in rockets, space travel and safety, adn technology used in modern things today. The challenges in Rocket building evolved by inventing prodeedures and perfecting things that without it, getting into space would be impossible. Electon Beam Welding, Lazers, advanced numerical control machines, Cad Cam computers. Hundres and thousands of technological advancments we enjoy today because of the space program.
We learned alot about the moon once we were there. Brought back moon rocks and the reseach on that gave us answers to theories or unknowns, and paved the road twards sending satelites and landing on other planets, and now leaving our universe. Just getting there and back was probably one of the most amazing feats humans have done. Considering the level of computers in 1969?? Even the level of computers in the first shuttle launch were prior to the smallest 286's. Amazing when you just think about what fits in you pocket today, would take a room and tons of vacuum tube machines in the 60's
the end of the Nixon years, and VietNam war era was a recession. When the moon programs ended, it was also a new time coming to design and build Americas Space Shuttle. By the way the shuttle concept was an origional design of Bell Aircraft in the 50's when my Dad was a design engineer for Bell. It was called the BOMI project.
We learned and advanced in technoloy from Kennedy's committment to land on the moon. We stopped going to the moon becasue we had learned what we need to learn. Public interrest of the programs was dwindling, it was now commonplace. Even working on the shuttle for 28 years, I wouldn;t always know we had launched and were up again. Those Appollo days gave us valuable information that has been used for at least 130 shuttle missions since 1981. Without the space program, you would not be enjoying many things in your homes today I'm sure. It also employed hundreds of thousands of people, united the country behind the pride of the space program, deparatly needed at a time of an unpopular war. |
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