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Richard Nixon: Administration
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[One] tragic legacy of the Nixon administration is the shift the direction of the U.S. space program by devoting scarce funding to the Space Shuttle Program. This decision, made to encourage "space commerce," foreclosed more important space exploration and settlement goals, including the construction of a lunar base and manned missions to Mars. The space frontier was efectively closed for at least a generation as a consequence. The inefficient and dangerous Space Shuttle required a destination, and the only marginally more useful but still expensive International Space Station was the consequence. Because of Nixon and the conservative ideological obsession with profits from commerce, Americans have not walked on Mars and do not have a base on the Moon.
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Under the Nixon Administration, NASA's budget declined. NASA Administrator Thomas O. Paine was drawing up ambitious plans for the establishment of a permanent base on the Moon by the end of the 1970s and the launch of a manned expedition to Mars as early as 1981. Nixon... rejected these ideas.
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Ford basically continued Nixon's foreign policies, and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was a dominant force in his administration as he had been under Nixon. Under increasing pressure from the nationalist right, Ford stopped using the word "detente," but he continued Nixon's efforts to negotiate a second SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty), and in 1975 he signed the Helsinki Accords, which recognized political arrangements in Eastern Europe which had been disputed for more than a generation.
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