If they had kept going after reaching the moon, i feel like by now, we would’ve developed the technology to establish a colony on the moon. So why stop?
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The Space Race wasn’t a scientific mission. It was a political statement about power. America won by landing a man on the moon in 1969. Then everybody quit because it was expensive.
And why f1 drivers stopped after finish line in Silverstone a week ago? For now they would drive for enough miles to run around the world couple times probably.
Same reasons – someone won, no need to waste money on fuel and spare parts.
Watch “For All Mankind” on AppleTV for a really great SciFi show that starts in the space race and goes to modern times with the idea “What if the space race never ended and what would have needed to change to keep it going?”
Its fascinating alt-history and done incredibly well.
The space race was all about one-upping the Soviets. When it became clear N-1 wouldn’t ever fly a single mission and cosmonauts wouldn’t ever step on the moon, it wasn’t worth throwing good money after bad to keep going.
The people who were responsible for financial backing the efforts decided that they had better things to spend the money on.
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