HAHA

Lol, can you imagine finding spacecraft, on the side of it, words in a banner, "BECAUSE WE CAN"

Yes, that's why some of the said "CCCP" and others said "USA"- it wasn't as if they needed to remind themselves who built them.

 

And of course there's the given reason which was "We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, "

from

http://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/ricetalk.htm

 

I know it's before your time (it's before mine too), but they really did it "because we can" (and to upset "the other guys" who couldn't).

Edited December 19, 201114 yr by John Cuthber

Yes, that's why some of the said "CCCP" and others said "USA"- it wasn't as if they needed to remind themselves who built them.

 

And of course there's the given reason which was "We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, "

from

http://er.jsc.nasa.g...eh/ricetalk.htm

 

I know it's before your time (it's before mine too), but they really did it "because we can" (and to upset "the other guys" who couldn't).

 

You're right, that's essentially what we've done.

 

But now we're humbly hopping on the Soyuz with our international comrades, the goals seem to have changed.

 

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