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First conceived during the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration, the Apollo Moon program got a real boost from another of America’s great presidents, John F. Kennedy. It was his
landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth by the end of the decade line that will forever be linked to what is, to this day, the single most ambitious exploration program the world has ever known. 1 photo
The Moon landings, spectacular as they were in themselves, were just a means to an end. Humans went there to explore, not hop around like underweight rabbits, and explore they did. And they even brought back pieces of the Earth satellite, for study and whatever.
לקראת שיגור לירח: נאס א ערכה ניסוי במשגר עוצמתי
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Une loi va protéger les sites Apollo des futures missions lunaires
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What is Elon Musk s Starship? © Getty Images SpaceX has been developing a line of Starship prototypes at its facility in South Texas
Elon Musk is planning to soon launch the prototype of a vehicle that could be a game-changer for space travel. Starship, as it s known, will be a fully reusable transport system capable of carrying up to 100 people to the Red Planet.
The founding ethos of Elon Musk s private spaceflight company SpaceX was to make life multi-planetary. This is partly motivated by existential threats such as an asteroid collision big enough to wipe out humanity.
Settling other planets would place some of the eggs in other baskets, sparing human civilisation if one of them were to experience a cataclysm.
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