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the ambitions of the early days of the space age, especially Von Braun and Ley's plans for how to go to the moon, were truly incredible
Step 1: build a 250m spin gravity space station 1000 miles up
Step 2: build a hundred meter tall moon lander in orbit
Apollo was a cold war PR stunt.
Artemis is boomer nostalgia for a cold war PR stunt.
Leading space development with humans has always been a taxpayer money furnace with no return on investment in sight.
The existing space economy is autonomous satellites, and any sustainable space economy will likely grow from that. *Eventually* humans in space will become cost-effective.
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@beka_valentine they probably weren’t thinking in terms of a geopolitical stunt that Apollo was. but also not in terms of practicality/cost.