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by maaku 5458 days ago
Interesting that this is at the bottom; people who downvoted this probably don't know their NASA history...

(EDIT: for context, most of trouble NASA has gotten itself into stem from commitments made for political reasons to appease the Nixon administration and a Congress dealing with fallout from the OPEC oil embargo in '73--when Apollo was winding down and Shuttle revving up.)