We’re still doing it too. Pretty much all of our modern telescopes, like JWST, are built by defense contractors who then use the expertise and technologies they develop for military applications.
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Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
The real conspiracy is that the moon landing was just a way to get the public to be enthusiastic about devolping weapon systems.
magiccupcake@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 3 days ago
Just as bad, we have Johnson on tape selling it to Kennedy as a way to get past the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Kennedy didn’t believe in it at all.
Johnson wanted the pork for his constituents.
In Johnson’s defense a little, many of his constituents were quite poor and this did bring a lot of development to the area.
It also put the Soviet Union in a tough position of having to try to keep up (though they did have a stellar space program already, but going to the moon was a waste of resources).
Hell, IIRC, they had the first lander on the moon. They were well ahead of the US in many ways.