Hello Dan,

 TR>> How many Swedish flags has Sweden's astronauts planted on the Moon? More
 TR>> than the United States? Or even as many?

 WD>> It's easy to claim credit for something of which you basically
 WD>> only provide the finances ... a lot of German, Polish, Belginese,
 WD>> Danish and other languages were spoken during the development of
 WD>> the Atlas, Saturn, Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programmes.

 DC> Ever heard the saying "Actions speak louder than words"?

When the USSR launched Sputnik, the whole world noticed.
When the US tried to launch its own rockets, the whole world
laughed.  That is how advanced the USSR was when compared
to the US at the time the space race began.

JFK's speech in 1962 was made in Houston, Texas on a hot muggy day.
Most people were bored, and not really paying any attention to
anything he said.  Until his famous question "Why does Rice play
Texas?"  That is what grabbed everybody's attention.  After he
asked them, he gave his reason - the part about sending a man
to the Moon and back before the decade is out.

So.  Now you know why we went there.  And back.  And Rice does
continue to play Texas.  All because JFK made it so.

 DC> Perhaps all those countries (and likely more) *contributed* to the
 DC> US space programs, but it was the *US* that had the programs.

China did not contribute to the ISS.  Russia and the EU did.
Which is why no Chinese taikonauts have ever been allowed to
board the ISS.

 DC> It was the US who actually *DID* put men on the moon.

That is only a claim by NASA, not proven fact.

 DC> And we'll be the ones who do it again, sooner than you think.

Stanley Kubrick is retired, and no longer making movies.
Except in his own heaven.

--Lee

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