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

    I said this to someone else but I'll make this its own comment:

    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.