Pretty sad when one thinks of it that way. We can only blame ourselves for what China is today and not advancing on the landing on the Moon.
Pretty sad when one thinks of it that way. We can only blame ourselves for what China is today and not advancing on the landing on the Moon.
Sadder still when one realizes that the entire Apollo program was an afterthought. Project Orion was the way, but due to an utter lack of political will it was killed in 1964.
Had Orion gone forward, we would have been on Mars and Saturn for 50 years, while the first interstellar ships would have arrived in the Alpha Centauri system years ago.