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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
Lack of competition. The only reason the US sent men to the moon was to beat the Soviets to it, and when they collapsed there was no longer anyone putting pressure on the Americans to go further. I don't think it's a coincidence that we're seeing a revival of manned space exploration interest now that China is getting into the game
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I agree with that, I also think that its budgetary and math as well.
Maybe we'll see a up tick in competition from private enterprise, though I think that the market for flying rich passengers to mars isn't there at the moment.
We basically launched men to the moon on a space craft with 2 million moving parts and a computer that had the processing power of a fit bit, you'd think that this would be easier to get back there.
I also think we became really risk adverse with the shuttle accidents.