The first man in space was launched by the russians almost _60_ years ago. That was history. Then the americans sent men to the moon, that was history too,

The first man in space was launched by the russians almost _60_ years ago. That was history. Then the americans sent men to the moon, that was history too, and _50_ years ago. We realized sending human into space was not really useful, so that more or less stopped. The ISS was an international endeavor with questionable scientific goals, but still it was fun and an unprecedented global collaboration. The Mars rovers and some other space probes (Viking, Venera) were true scientific achievements too. What we see here is a private company re-learning how to send men in space and calling this "history". No doubt it will be used to send highest paying customer in space. It will also be used to send a large, low orbit satellite constellation without the slightest amount of collaboration or concerting with other space users. Other companies will compete to send their own constellations, some of them will certainly fail in a few years and leave their junk in space for tens of years. It has even been used to send a car into space, although many scientists would have loved to send a useful payload even in a test flight. All this is financed by investors lured by the "dream" of sending men die on Mars, and by a government that has lost the sense of reality. How great.