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Correct. If he had been voted in four years earlier I bet there wouldn’t have been Apollo 11 either.

• philwelch 7y ago
  Nixon didn't run in 1964; Goldwater did.
  • toss1 7y ago
    Oddly enough, Nixon ran and lost against Kennedy in 1960. So for sure if Nixon had won in '60, there would have been no space program
    • mulmen 7y ago
      Moon program maybe but the space program was already in full swing by 1960. Space was immensely important to Eisenhower for national defense purposes and Nixon was his VP.
      • toss1 7y ago
        Yes, of course, but your comment is quite off-topic. We were talking specifically about the moon program. Obviously, launch & orbital vehicles are critical dual-use civilian/military technologies (space exploration & delivering ICBMs). In contrast, visits to the moon are not (at least for the near & intermediate future) dual-use civ/mil technologies. Nixon killed the moon program when he got into office, and it is very unlikely he would have started one had he won in 1960.