Post #1456217
2026-04-06 19:35 UTC
@n1xnx @clusterfcku The other thing to take into account is the Cold War, Apollo was effectively a military and propaganda exercise, and deaths were more politically tolerable. Today's missions are far, far more risk averse (and probably for the better, in the long term).
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@n1xnx@tilde.zone 2026-04-06 19:48
@_thegeoff @clusterfcku Agreed. One more reason to accept a slower, more expensive program that doesn't kill astronauts along the way. (It's not *all* inefficiency and exploitation by contractors.)