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bookers555 t1_ja0iq2i wrote

Reply to comment by 247world in NASA's Artemis moon program receives salute from Apollo 11's Buzz Aldrin (video) by kevindavis338

Because the whole point was to rub it on the Soviet Union's faces. When they realized the Soviet Union couldn't get to the Moon, they just sliced the budget and stopped production of the Saturn V.

If the Soviet N1 had worked, the space race would have probably kept going.

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247world t1_ja0kz8n wrote

Yeah I think you have something there. I don't know if you've seen that show on Apple TV but that's part of the basis of it that the Soviets actually got there first.

Given how valuable everything from the space program produced it's a shame that we let some ignorant politicians say oh we're launching all that money into space when every penny was spent on the ground.

As I've said elsewhere the second somebody gets a successful mining operation going in space or build some sort of orbiting factory the race will be on again and it won't be just governments this time. At this point it's not only governments at this time

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