And that was very close to the deadline. By the time Nixon was in office, Apollo 8 had already orbited the Moon and Apollo 9 was less than 2 months away. No a

And that was very close to the deadline. By the time Nixon was in office, Apollo 8 had already orbited the Moon and Apollo 9 was less than 2 months away. No administration is going to carry the water to push along a rival administration's space program that's only ¼ complete.