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The late defense secretary may have saved the manned space program. I'm not sure that that's necessarily a good thing, in retrospect, but it puts the Nixon administration in a different light than the popular perception.
Posted by Rand Simberg at March 29, 2006 06:06 AM
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Om the other hand, the Nixon Administration cut the NERVA nuclear rocket program, even when it still had Congressional support....
Posted by Frank Glover at March 29, 2006 04:08 PM
Did anyone else ever read "Voyage" by Stephen Baxter? Neat alternate history based on Cap Weinberger convincing Nixon to kill the Shuttle and fund a Mars mission.
Posted by Stephen Fleming at March 29, 2006 05:40 PM
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