Originally posted by THE REED™
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Seeing this photo gave me a nerdgasm of the highest magnitude. On the one hand I'm really excited that we've finally gotten to Mars, but on the other I can't help but be somewhat disappointed that it took this long to get there - 43 years after the moon landing.
I realize that around the time of Apollo 11 the technology didn't exist to go to Mars yet, but in the ensuing decades the federal government scaled back the space program dramatically and that played a big role in why it took us this long to get there. It's almost as if we went to the moon and then just went : "Well, that's it, nothing up here" and threw in the towel.
Pretty disappointed in Obama's actions against NASA, as well - Space exploration plays a vital role in our understanding of the universe.
Anyway, awesome stuff indeed.
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