From: "John Beamish" 

Well, once you have go-to-orbit-return nothing else is needed for precision
ICBM hardware/software.  That eliminates Gemini and Apollo.

I agree that the military and NASA were often working hand-in-glove (there
are, after all, a lot of other NASA programs that would have delivered
information that the military would find, ahem, useful) but I think
Kennedy's race to the moon wasn't about the military benefits but, rather,
was a marketing tool (so many things done "in the open" when
compared to the Soviet approach).

On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 17:26:06 -0500, Monte Davis
 wrote:

> Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">
> wrote:
>
>> What's the diff twixt a space launch vehicle & a ICBM? The payload?
>
> This is news? :-)
>

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