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'One Giant Leap'? Or a Waste of Money? Even Kennedy Was Lukewarm

"Twelve, eleven, ten, nine..." It was July 16, 1969, and even now, 40 years after Apollo 11 left for the moon, the argument still simmers. "...three, two, one, zero, all engines running -- liftoff, we have liftoff, 32 minutes past the hour, liftoff on Apollo 11, and --" "Why are we wasting billions of dollars on the space program?" ask many visitors to ABCNews.com and other Web sites. 40 years after Neil Armstrong took that one small step on the lunar surface, NASA still provokes the same... Full Story
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