minus-squareusernamesaredifficul [he/him]hexbear11·il y a 11 mois Like when the US got really into the space race rockets are the same technology as missiles the space race was a show of nuclear force link
minus-squareUtter_Karate [he/him, comrade/them]hexbear10·il y a 11 moisSure, but landing on the moon requires more than rocketry. The US did actually devote reources to space technology with no military applications, and that's... fine. Didn't really help anyone, but also no one is dead from it. link
minus-squarePorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]hexbear15·il y a 11 moisWell, except the 14 members of the Challenger and Colombia crews link
minus-squareUtter_Karate [he/him, comrade/them]hexbear10·il y a 11 moisFine, but when the US spends this amount of money on anything I have learned to expect a lot more bodies. link
minus-square420blazeit69 [he/him]hexbear3·il y a 11 moisLots of those going around NASA at the time link
rockets are the same technology as missiles the space race was a show of nuclear force
Sure, but landing on the moon requires more than rocketry. The US did actually devote reources to space technology with no military applications, and that's... fine. Didn't really help anyone, but also no one is dead from it.
Well, except the 14 members of the Challenger and Colombia crews
Fine, but when the US spends this amount of money on anything I have learned to expect a lot more bodies.
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Lots of those going around NASA at the time