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With mindset like this, Apollo would never have happened.
by risyachka 4y ago
With mindset like this, Apollo would never have happened.
- iso1631 4y agoAnd what would have been lost?
- Maken 4y agoSeveral hundred kilograms of lunar rocks.
- pfdietz 4y agoLunar samples could have been returned by unmanned vehicles at a fraction of the cost of Apollo. The Russians did just that! Maybe not hundreds of kilograms, but enough to get the major science results (moon is evolved not primitive, oxygen isotopes, volatile depletion, europium anomaly). Unmanned vehicles could even have reached the polar regions, which Apollo never could do.
- zanderwohl 4y agoThere are a lot of technologies that advanced tremendously due to developing things the Apollo Program needed: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/80660main_ApolloFS.pdf https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/80660main_ApolloFS....