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...short distance away, a man who helped the original vision come true parted the curtains in his office and watched the gleaming rocket. "It's sad," said Kurt H. Debus, director of the Kennedy Space Center. Now 63, Debus began firing rockets that were little more than firecrackers with Wernher von Braun in Peenemunde in the 1930s. The idea of landing a man on the moon in those days was barely a dream. Debus has been in charge of every manned launch conducted by the U.S.; there has never been a failure. He recalls with a certain humor that...
...What do I think when I look at Apollo 17?" mused Debus. "It's beautiful. We have pioneered. We have worked hard. There is a terrific satisfaction in having been permitted to be part of it all. It was only after great soul searching that we recommended sending man to the moon back in 1961. It has been a happy life...
Polar lee. Debus let his gaze linger on the mighty Saturn V rocket beneath the Apollo 17 spaceship. "The Saturn V is the end too," said Debus. "I don't believe we will build a stronger rocket in this century. The Saturn can boost a payload of 200,000 lbs. into orbit. If you want more payload than that, it is cheaper to launch several Saturns than to develop a new rocket...
...Debus compared the past and future of the space program to the difference between the excitement of discovering the South Pole and the somberness of staying there to study the polar ice. "We are in the age of economizing now. In the background is the shining star of adventure. But now we must bring the benefits of space...
...only two more moon missions; originally there were to be another five. Plans to land an unmanned probe on Mars have been set back to 1975. The launching of Skylab, the first U.S. orbital space station, is unlikely to occur before 1973. Cape Kennedy's director, Kurt Debus, explained NASA's problem on the eve of Apollo 15's launch: Space is enormously important to the future well-being of the U.S., he said, but we have not yet found the way to convince the American public of that...