/sci/ - Science & Math

>>16149205
the before-the-end-of-the-decade line ended up being more curse than blessing in the long run. they had to drop all sorts of useful stuff for the sake of time - booster recovery, EOR, cryopropellant service modules, mission modules - all stuff that was assumed to be necessary developments before gagarin. if they'd let the first landing be pushed back into the 1970s we could've done it with partially-reusable saturn c3s and the moon program could've continued indefinitely.

>>14597634
i know it's just for fun so you can do whatever, but apollo getting cancelled for lunar gemini was never a serious possibility. you could just do a more lightweight apollo proposal like the mission module designs from martin or GE that got rejected for faget's giant gumdrop.