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dehrmann 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Artemis II safely splashes down

We stopped going to the moon because it's a vanity project. It's expensive, risky, and there isn't much more science to do or that can't be done by robots.

throwaway132448 3 months ago [–]

Hopefully this time we can keep going for what we can do for engineering instead of what we can do for science.

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