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I was at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney today. And whose Gemini space suit does it have? Wally Schirra's! I wonder where we would be if the US had decided to push on with Apollo and other projects rather than cancel them. I remember hearing a NASA boss saying during the Apollo landings that they expected to be on Mars by the mid 80's. Twenty years have passed since that target. I also understand that the plans and expertise to build a Saturn V are so dispersed or lost that it couldn't be done. It reminds me of the Shelley poem about the traveller who comes across the ruin of a great King's statue in the desert. So sure was he of his might and power;
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
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