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Originally Posted by Disinfo Agent
About this issue, I suggest reading through this old thread which has recently been revived. If space exploration has reached something of a plateau, that's not because of any treaties that discourage it, but because the next step is really, really hard to achieve. |
Actually, the necromancer himself hit the nail on the head:
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Originally Posted by robheus
Let's face it: Apollo was for political reasons (prestige of the USA, beating the Soviet Union in the space race as moral prestige), and much less scientific. Those reasons do not exist now to do something similar, so no funds.
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That's basically what I've been saying; the Outer Space Treaty allowed everyone to call the space race a draw, and we haven't had space race levels of funding ever since.