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I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
Werner Von Braun's primary interest in rockets was for space travel. After the first V2 landed on London he is quoted as saying, "The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet"
There's a brilliant what-if sci-fi novel by Stephen Baxter called Voyage which tells the alternate history story from the end of Apollo where the decision was made to go to Mars instead of building the shuttle. It's a fascinating look at what might have been.
I vaguely recall a big fuss about Apollo 8 and later 13
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Regardless of whether the Space Shuttle was a "mistake", I think we could all agree NASA learnt bucket loads from having persevered with it.