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Ironically, you wonder had the first mission failed. If the space fever of the 60s would have stayed far longer or not. In other words, did the public just too
by salimmadjd 10y ago
Ironically, you wonder had the first mission failed. If the space fever of the 60s would have stayed far longer or not.
In other words, did the public just took it for granted that how difficult of feat it was and lost interest after a few successful (Apollo 13 the exception) moon landings?
- hodgesrm 10y agoWell, there was the Apollo 1 accident in 1967, which though gruesome did not stop Apollo 11. [1] Add to that many near disasters in the space program as well as the countless fatalities in the development of manned flight and you have to wonder what it would have actually taken to stop the space program. Humans have accepted incredible risks to explore the unknown. It gives one hope for the species. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_1