Then the cold War ended and they realized they didn't have to masquerade their missile defense programs as human spaceflight anymore, and cut the budgets for all that stuff.
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You should clarify the title to say "In 1969 VP Agnew planned for a manned landing on Mars between 1983 to 2000."
There was a whole plan for space colonization.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Frontier:_Human_Colonies_in_Space
oh neptune
It will always anger me how close we were to a For All Mankind timeline.