I remember that show they had on Fox network like 20 years ago that had everyone convinced the moon landing was fake for like a month. I know people have believed that for a long time and some people still believe it, but that took the conspiracy mainstream for a moment.
Hidden Figures?
All NASA spending almost always pays off in multiple peripheral ways.
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That might be true if they're doing different things. I feel like doing the same, or similar lunar mission over and over you'd end up diminishing returns. It'll hopefully be cheaper with the Artemis program.Hidden Figures?
All NASA spending almost always pays off in multiple peripheral ways.
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And spent about 2.5% of US GDP a year for 10 years. Todays equivalent about $700B per year, or about the entire US Military spend. That's not meant as a criticism, just an important note to how much effort the country put into it.
While still sending data, IM is talking of Odysseus' functionality in hours.
Intuitive Machines' Odysseus probe beams home more photos from historic moon landing
Are these the last images that we'll get from Odysseus?www.space.com
More likely half of the country and half of our lawmakers would doubt the science and claim that it is a hoax to take away freedoms and highjack our government's budget.
From the little I've heard, this was a 100% robotic landing mission, in a location of the moon very difficult to land in and by any measure was immensely less expensive. That means the telemetry was determined on-the-fly by the onboard computer from onboard cameras, sensors, and robotics. I'd give it some room for error because it was doing stuff never done before.
