I would've thought USSR would've done it by the 70s if not before Amerika, but it's been 60 years since and no one has done it so far. In fact, it's likely it'll be Amerikans who're back on the moon again before anyone else. WTF is going on here?

    • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Apart from the US of the 60s and 70s, which was still an industrial powerhouse, nobody had the resources and capacity to keep churning out these expensive space projects, and that included the USSR.

      Except the USSR beat the USA to the first in literally every aspect of the space race except for a manned moon mission. The truth is a manned moon mission is something nobody else has done because it's largely dangerous and pointless. Why endanger human astronauts with a manned moon mission when you can just keep sending rovers there that are even better at collecting samples without contaminating the environment with human bacteria, etc?

      Manned missions are kinda reckless. Until we're actually trying to colonize planets, astronauts are for repairing space stations. Even if we were trying to build habitations on other surfaces, we would still send equipment first and people last.