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    Why Going to the Moon is Taking 16 Years This Time Round - Hugo Rune

    Thanks to all who replied, I can understand the problem a little better now. I have asked the same question on another (non-science) forum, and they came up with similar answers. I take your point, that is a better analogy. As others have also commented, using robotic systems makes much more...
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    Why Going to the Moon is Taking 16 Years This Time Round - Hugo Rune

    So a slight redesign on the original plans is all that is called for. This is a serious enquiry, (my remark was just my English humour, I was brought up with Monty Python and got infected at an early age) I'm happy to accept they got to the moon in 1969, it happened on my 12th birthday and I...
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    Why Going to the Moon is Taking 16 Years This Time Round - Hugo Rune

    I remember seeing old TV footage from 1961 of Kennedy promising to get to the moon before the end of the decade, which they succeeded in doing with Apollo 11 in July 1969. All the planning, designing, building and testing, the successes and failures, redesign, rebuild, retest, the development...
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