[SamAdams76]

When I was a boy in the early 1970s, I used to watch the moon shots, thinking for sure that in my lifetime, we will have walked on Mars and other planets.

Over 40 years later, we have gotten no further in terms of human exploration of the solar system. In fact, we might be hard pressed to even re-create the moon missions of nearly half a century ago.

[moviefan8]

We can recreate it on a computer. No need to risk life.

Seriously I hope we go back and explore. It is missing that human feeling.

[Rummyfan]

Over 40 years later, we have gotten no further in terms of human exploration of the solar system. In fact, we might be hard pressed to even re-create the moon missions of nearly half a century ago.

Think if what we accomplished in the sixties: while fighting a war in Viet Nam, we also went from virtual scratch to putting a man on the moon, while also enjoying an unprecedented standard of living here at home. Then... what happened?!

[minnesota_bound]

#8 Politicians are the cause of mankinds regress instaed of progress.

[PIF]

we might be hard pressed to even re-create the moon missions of nearly half a century ago.
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No one alive knows how to start the F5 Saturn engines ...

[Lazamataz]

We are so screwed.

[chimera]

It’s worse than that. We don’t have an operational, man-rated launch vehicle that could duplicate Alan Shepard’s suborbital hop in 1961. Now we have to pay the Russkies millions to use their vehicles as taxis to orbit.