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Originally Posted by renormalised
The entire Apollo program cost $25 billion dollars over its lifetime.
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I remember reading that...and that was in 1960s-70s dollars too!
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Originally Posted by renormalised
If it wasn't for the fact that there's something in it for the military and the politicians (spying on other countries, etc), they'd have canned the whole lot years ago.
Come to think of it, does "Joe Public" even give a rat's about the space program at all, these days??. Probably not.
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Don't write us all off!
I think another tragedy is that Australia doesn't have an active space
program up and running from the early momentum of the Woomera era.
I'm still glad to have lived within this small window of human history
though.
My late grandfather made me so proud. From his perspective he was
born in the 1910s, learnt to fly a Gypsy Moth. Planes were a new
invention!. His son, my Dad learnt to fly too...in a DH Chipmunk.
Grandpa was fascinated by technology and kept up with it too with
a passion until his passing. He followed the 50s and 60s early test
programs for Jets and the x-planes.
Saw the moon landings and shuttle programs.
Saw in the Pioneer and Voyager missions, Viking and Galileo.
What an era to have lived your allocated existence!.
And in his 80's Grandpa could still operate the latest VCR and camcorders
and set his own digital watch.
Whatever happens in the next few decades will not alter the fact for me
that I feel very priveliged to have lived right now!
Steve