Perfec sense to me. Height of the cold war & the DOD wants better/ more acurate missiles. But with Vietnam = Quagmire, congress is dragging its feet. Can you think of a better test of the long range missile guidance systems than using them for a 'peaceful' mission to the moon?
We stopped in '75 because we knew we were moving away from ballistic missles as a defence.
And now that we want new anti-ballistic missiles (a tad different beast) we suddenly are starting tooling up moon and Mars shots. Hmmm....
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