> Had NASA not allowed this, the landings would have continued for at least a few more years. Hardly. The number of missions was primarily capped by budgetary

> Had NASA not allowed this, the landings would have continued for at least a few more years. Hardly. The number of missions was primarily capped by budgetary constraints [0] and the fact that they had only budgeted to build 15 Saturn 5 launchers. Flights after Apollo 17 were used for Skylab and the Apollo-Soyuz mission. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canceled_Apollo_missions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canceled_Apollo_missions