Well that escalated quickly.pic.twitter.com/l3PEMKJ5PU
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Fascinating. At first glance I thought "that's why we didn't keep going to the moon." But then I looked at the x axis. All the costs were developing the technology, not using it. Crazy to think this was happening during a war, incidentally.
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The number of US graduates in STEM, from high-school through to PhD, doubled. Doubling a population’s scientific literacy when it is living in a world so dependent on science and technology was a good move..pic.twitter.com/PDp86IHzr6
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The return to space from US soil happened during a war, too. Reusable rockets, SLS development, three Mars rovers, all during the *same* war. That's crazy.
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The spending was worth it. We got Tang, pens that can write upside down, and freeze dried ice cream.
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America was at war with someone. America has always been at war with someone.
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Visits to the moon eventually started to look like the last visit to the moon, and then the price of petrol shot up and umm why were we spending money on space flight again?
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