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Originally Posted by picassoscat
The laser reflector has been used for years. I believe we have an astronomer on site. perhaps he could shed further light on this. But, I believe we went. Just am curious as to ehy we did not pursue to moon further and jumped to Mars exploration when there are so many mineral potentials on the moon.
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Because Richard Nixon and the NASA big shots decided that it was more important to get "cheap" Earth to orbit capability, so they concentrated on the Shuttle. They even tried to burn the Saturn V's blueprints, so the Shuttle wouldn't have any competition. The Shuttle is perhaps one of the worst things that could have happened to the space program without it getting shut down.