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I wish these guys the best of luck and hope they get to do it quickly and safely. If anything, our drive for beating someone else into space for political or ec
by eksith 13y ago
I wish these guys the best of luck and hope they get to do it quickly and safely. If anything, our drive for beating someone else into space for political or economic reasons has really poisoned the well, so to speak. Maybe it does take the crazy pioneers to get up to the Black Sky... just because it's there.
- gnerd 13y ago> If anything, our drive for beating someone else into space for political or economic reasons has really poisoned the well, so to speak. I assume you are American. If so, I may be fuzzy on the historical facts, but didn't the Russians beat you guys into space?
- eksith 13y agoYep. Which is why we took enormous risks and end up losing 3 astronauts in Apollo 1, which wasn't even a proper spaceflight, on our way to beat them to the Moon. Russians lost 4 cosmonauts as well on 2 separate missions. Like I said. Poisoned well.
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