The Greatest generation ended the Apollo lunar missions.
The boomers engineered, developed and launched Mars rovers like this, nearly as big as a car, which will be roving around the surface of Mars in a couple of months.
Taken during mobility testing, this image is of the Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
Interesting that the tires or roller tracks or whatever the term is have the two different types of tread. One section for sand, the other for hard rock? Spin until they get traction? And they also appear elliptical, not round, unless that is just my astigmatism.
“The boomers engineered, developed and launched Mars rovers like this, nearly as big as a car, which will be roving around the surface of Mars in a couple of months.”
And the Xers will actually get people back in space. Not too shabby for the generation that people have dumped on as ‘worthless’. Once that heavy gets launched, they would have done something that boomers never accomplish wrt payloads.