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@copito @chrisisgr8 It was also a matter of national pride. The Soviets sent up Sputnik and the race was on. Nobody would have needed to put people in the rockets to justify making an ICBM, but they certainly did put up astronauts and cosmonauts past the point when it was clear that both sides had the technology necessary to create an apocalypse in about an hour.

@Polychrome @chrisisgr8 That always seems like the most foolish justification, though. Not going further has solved no problems at home while going as far as we did solved some problems in the literal home. Ugh, politicians ...

@chrisisgr8 There was that time the government just gave money to scientists and engineers hand over fist at NASA which gave us people on the moon, space blankets, the microwave, better computers, and a lot of other things. And then we stopped giving them so much money for ... reasons?