It is the creative mind that sometimes points us in the right direction. :)
Makes you appreciate the trips to the Moon. That was real and done with 60s technology. Best of all many of the gadgets that we use today can be traced back to the space race.
But looking at the other side of it ...
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Trouble is that we went to the other side, giving up greater things in favor of the small and trivial. At the time there was great Hope (during one of missions, I was in Mexico in a very small village and all there were so proud and so hopeful for their kids’ future) and still greater things would come along. But we retreated and lost the Hope we had gained.
Perhaps now things will go back, but I think there are so many forces against that these days, despite the seeming progress that Luna will remain unvisited, let alone Mars, for many more decades, if ever.
Most of modern society’s aids from computers to phones, to medical devises, to how food is grown came out of the so-called space race.