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Damn it guys. We've been on the moon! We actually launched rockets carrying people off the planet to the moon. What the fuck. If that doesn't give you butterfl

• throwanem 10y ago
  It helps not to know in detail the difference between the space program we had, and the one we could have had. If you've seen 2001: A Space Odyssey, its entire first act, and a fair fraction of the second, were predicated on the assumption that the Apollo missions would serve as the preliminary to real human space colonization which their architects intended that they be. For those excited about the concept of space colonization who wish to stay that way, I don't suppose I can unreservedly recommend detailed study of the US manned space program's history, especially not that post-1969. To say that such study can be disillusioning beggars language. It does, though, answer a whole slew of questions which all more or less boil down to: "What the hell happened?" But it's up to each interested individual to evaluate for herself whether the acquisition of such knowledge is worth more or less than the fatigue its possession is likely to inflict on her idealism.