[FPSPACE] RE: Kennedy

[pete.d.jennings@lmco.com]

On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Brett Harrison wrote:

> Yep, this is a great speech!  "We choose to go to the moon, and do the other
> things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard."  Great stuff! 

Unfortunately, we never did "the other things."  Kennedy was talking about nuclear thermal rockets.  We'd probably have a Mars base by now, if we had done these other things.

---Pete Jennings
   Spacecraft Integration Manager
   International Launch Services