• incognito_tuna@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    That we’ve been to the moon - in there 60s - but haven’t been back or been out further. I think it would just be against all their expectations.

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      1 year ago

      There were several places in the media that had stories of landing on the moon as a real possibility. Almost a forgone conclusion.

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        1 year ago

        I believe that the area of disbelief would be that we just… stopped.

        Unmanned space exploration is amazing, and we’ve done a ton in LEO, but we haven’t put a person out past the Hubble telescope since Apollo 17, which was 1972 if I remember correctly.

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          “Yeah, we went there a few times, there was nothing there besides a bunch of rocks. We brought some back for study, and spent the next few decades on more obviously productive pursuits. Like putting robots on Mars!”