we like to make fun of the american space program because they were behind in a bunch of milestones, but damn, landing on the moon is pretty fuckin good IMO.

like I don't really think of it as an american victory over the Soviets, but as a general human accomplishment, landing on the moon is pretty much one of the best we got.

Soviet accomplishments in space stations are probably as important or more important but damn, humans landed on the fuckin moon. holy shit!

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    10 months ago

    Good point. As much as I've been shitting on NASA today, I'd rather we went back to that style of space exploration rather that whatever the fuck Space X is doing right now.

    The James Webb telescope is particularly awesome, as is the Juno probe.

    And I'll never forget seeing those images of Pluto for the first time. New Horizons was amazing.

    I'd really love for humanity to send another probe to Neptune, it's barely been studied compared to the others (I think)

    • if_they_push_that_button_your_ass_got_to_go [they/them]
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      10 months ago

      there was a lot of cooperation between the USSR and the us in the late 70s and 80s with shuttles actually docking with the soviet space stations too. incredible stuff. It makes sense that American obstinance and the fall of the USSR diminished these accomplishments but holy shit.