At that time NASA was seeking applications for a second group of astronauts for the Apollo program.
Take the Apollo program: No human has been beyond the orbit of the Earth since the Nixon administration.
Northrop Grumman built the very first manned lunar landers back in the 1960s (when the company was called Grumman) for NASA's Apollo program.
Yet the Apollo program, apart from a training fire that killed three in 1967, somehow got men safely to the moon and back seven times.
No amount of STEM education funding could accomplish what the Apollo program did in terms of inspiring an entire generation with the wonder of technology.
Clinton envisioned a national effort toward a new energy policy similar in scale to the Apollo program of the 1960s, which sent manned missions to the moon.
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In fact, most of the value-added uses for space today (GPS navigation, communications, direct broadcast TV and Radio, weather, photography and mapping) owe little to the Apollo program.
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Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, a Republican, also called for an "Apollo program" and said reducing foreign dependence on oil was intrinsically tied to national security.
Yet even schoolchildren today know what the Apollo program was.
The Apollo program was a sort of collective ego boost for Americans, but again I would rank it as a sign of maturity that we no longer have need for hundred billion dollar self-esteem enhancements.
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For example, instead of the lunar rendezvous method that NASA chose for the Apollo program, the player can opt for Earth-orbit rendezvous or even direct-ascent where a single giant spacecraft lifts off from Earth and lands on the Moon.
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, a Democrat, touted an "Apollo program" -- referring to the 1960s effort that put men on the moon -- that would reduce dependence on foreign oil by more than half and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent.
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You know, kind of like when Sidney Bristo (Alias) is racing down an exhaust vent to 'disarm' a satellite gizmo on a random rocket just before the launch and therefore the utter distruction of the world but the rocket they show is the Saturn V used in the Apollo program.
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The Apollo space program relied on hydrogen fuel cells, which work by stripping electrons from hydrogen atoms.
Dramatic erosion of public interest began soon after presidential and congressional politics turned the Apollo space program into a jobs program.
In 2007, Prince El Hassan of Jordan, who has called for implementing the plan with an Apollo-like program, presented the plan during a European Union parliamentary session.
Five more Apollo moon landings would follow before the program ended in 1972.
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Apollo's successor, the Space Shuttle program, failed to capture America's imagination, or attention, except in 1986, when Challenger blew up, killing seven, and in 2003, when Columbia disintegrated on reentry, killing another seven.
The space shuttle program cost more and was less safe than the Apollo missions that preceded it.
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The problem NASA has faced is that since the Eagle landed on the moon and Apollo 11 returned safely to the earth the American people lost interest in our manned space program.
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