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More space flights. so maybe she's talking about this. >> we choose to go to the moon and do the other thing. not because they are easy, but because they are hard. >> that was a great speech. lunar program, that could be a budget buster, of course. hard numbers are hard to come by, because the soviet program was cloaked in secrecy. but according to nasa, our own manned space program cost about $23 billion from the first man in space to the last man on the moon. and according to a leading space historian, soviet spending was just about half that amount. it's hard to see how space spending would...

>> good lord ride all the way. >> god speed, john glenn. >> john glenn, the second to orbit the earth. that was 30 years before the ussr collapsed. that did not bankrupt them. they still had more money for more space flights. so maybe she's talking about this. >> we choose to go to the moon and do the other thing. not because they are easy, but because they are hard. >> that was a great speech. lunar program, that could be a budget buster, of course. hard numbers are hard to come by, because the soviet program was cloaked in secrecy. but according to nasa, our own space program cost about $23 ...

That did not bankrupt them. they still had more money for more space flights. so maybe she's talking about this. >> we choose to go to the moon and do the other thing. not because they are easy, but because they are hard. >> that was a great speech. lunar program, that could be a budget buster, of course. hard numbers are hard to come by, because the soviet program was cloaked in secrecy. but according to nasa, our own space program cost about $23 billion, and soviet spending was about half that amount. it's hard to see how space spending would be a major burden, especially when you consider a...