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ILoveEmeralds t1_iy8k6pe wrote

Everyone could but after the space race no one bothered too

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Burnyburner3rd t1_iy8kf3z wrote

It’s expensive. And dangerous. And there’s really no payoff for doing it. We’re lucky the US pushed to make it happen when they did. Otherwise there might still be 0 humans who stepped foot on the moon.

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AcidNewports t1_iy8kohu wrote

its not like they tried and failed, its an expense that wasn't worth it

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bkupron t1_iy8lc5v wrote

Uhhhh, N1 rocket? Pretty big failure. Also, worth is a subjective term. Why do you get out of bed in the morning?

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AcidNewports t1_iyd81kk wrote

How much gdp did the States spend going there?

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bkupron t1_iydn1a1 wrote

Oh, you are one of those people that think humans should solve war and poverty before we spend money on anything else. They reality is that money would be spent on war or given to the rich because humans are greedy and don't care if people suffer.

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Beeeeater t1_iy8lm2m wrote

The US did it just to show they could before Russia - Other countries have never had a good incentive to undertake such an expensive and pointless project.

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wjbc t1_iy8ly6v wrote

The U.S. is the richest country on Earth and was determined to win the space race for political and propaganda purposes. Because they lost the race to put a man in space and to orbit the Earth, they kept moving the goal posts until they won. But it was an enormous expense. Once the Soviet Union decided not to go to the Moon, for a long time there wasn't much reason or money for anyone else to try to be the second country to the Moon.

Even the U.S. soon stopped sending astronauts to the Moon, and there's still a lot of debate about whether they should be going back to the Moon again. Unmanned missions to the Moon or Mars or other objects in space are more practical for scientific purposes. Sending humans to a space station is more practical if you just want to keep learning how to keep humans in space.

One very big reason the U.S. is going back to the Moon now is a renewed space race with China, which recently sent three robotic missions to the Moon and announced intentions to put a base on the Moon by 2030. So although there are various other justifications, arguably it's really about politics and propaganda again.

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ModsAreBought t1_iy8maek wrote

Because it took 2.5%-4.5% of the federal budget of largest economy in the world for a decade to do so.

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Icy-Conclusion-3500 t1_iy8mu2n wrote

For our current purposes, robots are much cheaper and easier to send.

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space-ModTeam t1_iy8tchk wrote

Hello u/jda_420us, your submission "Has anyone else ever wondered this?" has been removed from r/space because:

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