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http://www.astronautix.com/lvfam/sls.htm<br /><br />How accurate do you judge this statement to be?<br /><br />A decision to proceed with the Space Launching System in July 1961 would have resulted in first flight of the A vehicle in mid-1964, first manned launch in mid-1965, first launch of the BC super-booster in mid-1966, and the first manned landing on the moon in late 1967. Instead NASA was given the Apollo program, the Titan 3 was developed for the Air Force's launch needs, and an opportunity to build a flexible launch system that would still be in use today was lost. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>