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Re:China prepares mission to land spacecraft on moon's far side by chillacy on Friday December 07, 2018 @08:34AM (#18627476)
You can land on the moon with 60s technology, what basis is there for not being able to reach that?
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Re:China prepares mission to land spacecraft on moon's far side by 2trill2spill on Friday December 07, 2018 @03:10PM (#18631141)
In space flight some of the most advanced technology even to this day was developed in the 60's and 70's. Things like NERVA[1], the NK-33[2], and the Saturn V[3], were developed back then and are still more efficient or bigger then similar technology we have today. The 60's and 70's were the golden age of spaceflight.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NERVA

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NK-33

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_V

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