"Why didn't we build a permanent Moon base after Apollo" Because that would have cost an immense amount of money while doing comparatively little to terrify our enemies?
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also the reason Sputnik scared the shit out of Americans (and the USSR was also happy to pretend that's not what they were doing and pretended to be confused about the reaction)
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Missile Command has one of the onscreen enemies be "sputniks" raining down missiles on cities from shorter range and at greater velocity than the ICBMs
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The math checks out
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For some reason I'd thought that ICBMs came well before Apollo. I now have a much grimmer headcanon for "TEMPORARY I HOPE HOPE HOPE".
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While yes, they did, these older ICBMs were not ready-launch systems. They had to be fueled before use. The solid rocket systems such as Minuteman and Peacekeeper were the direct result of the Apollo program and its predecessors.
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I mean we already had better rockets for that specific purpose but yes it was a proxy tech battle for the cold war.
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I think you're thinking of Martin's Titan II ICBM retooled for use in the Gemini missions, not the Saturn V purpose-built for Apollo, but your point still stands.
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Wrong for so many reasons that I do not even know where to start.
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Like, NASA is testing SLS next year and at least theoretically going to be back on the moon in 2024? I mean how does he miss that part?
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The idea that “basic science” has ever been driven by curiosity and not other things is Cold War propaganda