From: jrs9jrs9@gmail.com   
      
   On Monday, November 11, 2013 9:37:16 PM UTC-5, J. Clarke wrote:   
   > I was just rewatching Apollo 13 for the umpteenth time and I realized    
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   > that there's a good chance that none of the astronauts who walked on the    
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   > Moon will see humanity return.   
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   > Of the 12, four are dead, and the youngest of the survivors is 78.  I    
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   > suspect that most of the people who sent them there are past retirement    
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   > or dead too.   
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   > I think this is rather sad.   
      
      
   Yes, but the Moon trips were something of a gimmick, spurred on by the Cold   
   War rivalry with the then-USSR.  Just because we could get to the Moon doesn't   
   mean the US exactly was in a position to do anything serious and permanent   
   with that ability.  Also,   
    I think the space trips showed up the long-terms problems with being   
   weightless or "underweight" and cosmic rays, problems still not really solved.   
      
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