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How would the election of Richard Milhouse Nixon in 1960 have affected the space race? Would going to the moon have been as much of a priority? Would we have jumped from Gemini to Apollo as we did, or would space being a lower priority have meant that instead of jumping to Apollo we built the best Gemini spacecraft we could?

If not in the late 60s, when might we have landed on the moon? Would the Soviets have had a chance at beating us there if we were less intensely-focused on it? Could we have possibly started building space stations like the Russians did?
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