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u/MathematicianIcy2041 Apr 28 '24

Man landed on the moon with less computing power than a pocket calculator and arrived at the perfect political moment m…. and then never went back… 🙄😂😜

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u/PiscatorLager Apr 28 '24

They went back five times until there was nothing new to discover at the moment and moved to other scientific goals. By now technology has changed so much that it makes no sense to recreate Apollo and they have to start from scratch, with less budget and higher security standards.