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Between Oct 68 and Jul 69, we successfully put five manned Apollo missions into space, culminating in the lunar landing on 20 Jul 69.
In the next three years, we did it five more times (not counting the Apollo 13 aborted mission).
IMHO, our efforts since then have been half-hearted and less than President Kennedy would have hoped for.
The shuttle program was particularly flawed, unsafe, over-promised, and under-delivered.
Just my .02, YMMV.
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
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