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It's hard to say with any certainty, to be sure. But I wouldn't be so skeptical -- Nixon did after all announce the Space Shuttle program in part to help secure
by tanderson92 10y ago
It's hard to say with any certainty, to be sure. But I wouldn't be so skeptical -- Nixon did after all announce the Space Shuttle program in part to help secure his re-election. That too in California in a naked attempt to win SoCal.
Source: https://books.google.com/books?id=kje_BAAAQBAJ&lpg=PA12&ots=CWILZB0qpW&pg=PA12#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=kje_BAAAQBAJ&lpg=PA12&ots=...
- hga 10y agoNASA was always a jobs program as well as what it ostensibly was for, it was officially tasked with industrially uplifting the South, which became an even bigger thing when LBJ became president. The area to the immediate northeast of MIT was still mostly a wasteland when I showed up in 1979 because NASA all of a sudden decided that Houston was the ideal place to put the Mission Control Center.... After Apollo, that became many times more what it was for.