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Re:India is sending a rover to the moon, and the country is ... by sanxiyn on Sunday July 14, 2019 @04:36PM (#20435832)
US Space Race was toward the useless side, given that GPS or comsat do not require human spaceflight. Soviet Union was more sensible.
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Re:India is sending a rover to the moon, and the country is ... by mopsi on Sunday July 14, 2019 @06:11PM (#20436519)
There's more than GPS. Human spaceflight has produced many valuable non-invasive wearable biomedical devices because sending up a doctor to monitor the astronaut was not an option. NASA research into nutrition has given us better infant formulas. Research into protection of astronauts' eyes has lead to UV-blocking sunglasses. Etc etc.
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Re:India is sending a rover to the moon, and the country is ... by javagram on Sunday July 14, 2019 @09:05PM (#20437337)
Not sure, the Soviets also put men in space, did MIR, and they tried to go to the moon and build a space shuttle too, just failed at it.

The thing that I do wonder is when a country like India is just replicating the work already done by the USA, how much of the innovation / potential has already been tapped. (Or now with the USA return to the moon program, is developing Orion and SLS and the gateway really going to do much that the Apollo program didn’t?)

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