The technology for this has been around for decades, if the Soviet union didn’t fall we would have been to mars by the 2000s. Once the cold war ended all the funding and government support for human crewed missions virtually vanished, and we’ve been stuck in low earth orbit ever since. Human space exploration literally got set back several decades because of this, and we’re probably going to take another couple of decades before we can even get back to the moon. Something that was possible in the 60s.
Indeed, this is another huge loss that came out of USSR dissolving. I guess now that there’s a cold war with China ramping up, the US is going to have to start investing space again.
The technology for this has been around for decades, if the Soviet union didn’t fall we would have been to mars by the 2000s. Once the cold war ended all the funding and government support for human crewed missions virtually vanished, and we’ve been stuck in low earth orbit ever since. Human space exploration literally got set back several decades because of this, and we’re probably going to take another couple of decades before we can even get back to the moon. Something that was possible in the 60s.
Indeed, this is another huge loss that came out of USSR dissolving. I guess now that there’s a cold war with China ramping up, the US is going to have to start investing space again.