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Re:SpaceX to Send Privately Crewed Dragon Spacecraft Beyond ... by adrianN on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @01:42AM (#13751788)
We did send plenty of robot missions that wouldn't have been possible in the seventies and produced very valuable science. Rosetta and Curiosity for example are very cool missions.
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Re:SpaceX to Send Privately Crewed Dragon Spacecraft Beyond ... by astrodust on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @04:48PM (#13758319)
Consider these very cool missions are about 1/10th of the number of missions America was in a position to do.

Consider an America with the Texas Collider operational where major discoveries were made a decade before the CERN one even existed.

Consider an America where the ARPA internet project could have been one of the least notable breakthroughs in the last thirty years.

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