Today I learned on Nostr: TIL The US likely would have had explorers on Mars by the 1980s, but Nixon killed ...

TIL The US likely would have had explorers on Mars by the 1980s, but Nixon killed every proposal in 1969, slashed the NASA budget after Apollo 12, and stifled space exploration by setting low Earth orbit as the norm

https://www.planetary.org/articles/1027-when-nixon-stopped-human-exploration#:~:text=NASA%20had%20proposed%20to%20the,11%20and%20Apollo%2012%20successes
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