Voyage (1996)
“It was a disaster which brought the US space program, in 1986, to a nadir, rather than the new zenith of a Mars landing.
But it might have been very different.
After the liftoff of Apollo 11 in July 1969, an exuberant Vice President Spiro Agnew proclaimed that the US ‘should articulate a simple, ambitious, optimistic goal of a manned flight to Mars by the end of the century.’ And NASA had strong, feasible plans to achieve that goal.
America has never been so close again to assembling the commit...ment to go to Mars.
What went wrong in 1969? Why did President Nixon decide against the Mars option?
And how would things have worked out, in an alternate universe in which Natalie York walked on Mars?
In February 1969, a few months before the first Apollo Moon landing, the incoming Nixon Administration appointed a Space Task Group (STG), chaired by Vice President Agnew, to develop goals for the post-Apollo period. The STG was to report to the President in September. (President Nixon’s initiating memo was similar to that reproduced in the novel – but without the handwritten addendum …) Post-Apollo planning for space entered its most crucial months.MoreLess
But it might have been very different.
After the liftoff of Apollo 11 in July 1969, an exuberant Vice President Spiro Agnew proclaimed that the US ‘should articulate a simple, ambitious, optimistic goal of a manned flight to Mars by the end of the century.’ And NASA had strong, feasible plans to achieve that goal.
America has never been so close again to assembling the commit...ment to go to Mars.
What went wrong in 1969? Why did President Nixon decide against the Mars option?
And how would things have worked out, in an alternate universe in which Natalie York walked on Mars?
In February 1969, a few months before the first Apollo Moon landing, the incoming Nixon Administration appointed a Space Task Group (STG), chaired by Vice President Agnew, to develop goals for the post-Apollo period. The STG was to report to the President in September. (President Nixon’s initiating memo was similar to that reproduced in the novel – but without the handwritten addendum …) Post-Apollo planning for space entered its most crucial months.MoreLess
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