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ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I still can’t believe that the united states had multiple lunar landing missions and several people set foot on the moon… and now the US military and civilian space agencies are reliant on a company run by a Nazi manchild and that cannot send spaceships and satellites beyond low earth orbit…

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InputZero@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
To be fair to Musk (LOL!) NASA was chock full of former Nazi scientists back then. You don’t believe me? walk into NASA sometime and yell “Heil Hitler!” WOOP! They all jump straight up! R.I.P Jessica Walter.

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MajorasMaskForever@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
In all seriousness going to LEO gets the job done the vast majority of the time, medium and high earth orbit have very few use cases with the exception of geostationary which SpaceX has gone to.

Going to the moon is very energy intensive and you don’t get a ton of benefit for it so there’s no real point to going there. Apollo was a jobs program and a dick waving contest with Soviet Russia to prove who could put the biggest nuke anywhere on Earth. Going to the moon has very little scientific/practical value outside of political stunts which Apollo and Artemis programs definitely are

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- FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  It was supposed to be our shipyard to build bigger ships than we could lift to orbit, until the dick waving started. NASA had much much bigger plans than just walking around on the moon.
  
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