If they had kept going after reaching the moon, i feel like by now, we would’ve developed the technology to establish a colony on the moon. So why stop?
In: Planetary Science
Because America won the space race. Even if it was best of 3, we went there *6 times in 3 short years*.
Also you could say the cost was *astronomical*
Jokes aside going to the moon was kind of Kennedy’s thing. When Nixon was elected he cut NASAs budget by 10% in 1971, he also tried to cancel further Apollo missions after Apollo 13 fearing another disaster could hurt his reelection.
This is speculation but I imagine the domestic climate at the time may have prevented some of the aspirational enthusiasm required to further the space race.
America also entered a recession in 1973, oil crisis, Vietnam protests peaked from 1970-73, and let’s not forget watergate, there was a lot of domestic anxiety at the time and new distrust in government. That had never really happened before.
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