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Re:Space Elevator by csomar on Thursday April 20, 2023 @10:39AM (#35640765)
Yep. But you'd expect that we'd have more given how much technology has advanced and how bigger the economies are now. The recent progress is mostly due to Billionaires now.

Another possibility is: Space is too hard. So instead the focus is to analyze (ie: James Webb) instead of sending a human there.

Re:Space Elevator by piyh on Thursday April 20, 2023 @10:53AM (#35641023)
The incentives for going to space are limited to more economic sensibility when you don't have a dick measuring contest going on between great powers.