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Topic:	Red Bull Stratos: Felix Baumgartner's skydive

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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by Robert Pearlman: [B] [QUOTE]Originally posted by YankeeClipper: [b]Ok, let's go back to September 12, 1962...[/b][/QUOTE] I think a much more telling and insightful look into Kennedy's reasons for going to the moon are not the carefully crafted public speeches designed to sell a nation on the tremendous expenditures needed for Apollo, but rather his comments behind closed doors, as he had recorded in the White House, between his science adviser, NASA's administrator and himself... <center><iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/tilwvlpNSfA?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></center> <blockquote>[i]Everything that we ought to really be tied into getting onto the Moon ahead of the Russians. ...the only justification for it ...is because we hope to beat them.[/i]</blockquote> [QUOTE][b]Ultimately, the manned spaceflight program was always about pre-eminence in the science of spaceflight and exploration, not performing stunts.[/b][/QUOTE] As the recording above demonstrates, Kennedy refutes this very point. It wasn't about preeminence in space; the U.S. already claimed preeminence, nor was it about science. Kennedy was arguing to forgo the Ranger and Surveyor precursor science programs, which is in part what led to the above discussion. Webb, to his credit, very much believed that science should be the driving force for the nation's space program and that it shouldn't only be focused on beating the Russians in a race, but that was clearly Kennedy's primary interest and objective.[/B][/QUOTE]
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