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Forum:	Mercury - Gemini - Apollo
Topic:	NASA report: Apollo missions were a failure

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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 E2M Lem Man: [b]But by their definition, Columbus's missions to the new world were failures also.[/b][/QUOTE] To the contrary, the report, per the article, suggests that Columbus' voyages were one of only two with "merit". <BLOCKQUOTE>[i]Only Columbus's and John Franklin's 1845 expedition to find the Northwest Passage - on which all his 129 crewmen died - had any strategic merit, it was found. ...With Columbus and Franklin, the failures were mitigated by long-term beneficial results; the former discovered the New World, while ships sent to find Franklin made key discoveries that led to the finding of the Northwest Passage.[/i]</BLOCKQUOTE>[/B][/QUOTE]
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