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Originally Posted by TheCascadeKid
'Murica.
In all seriousness, though, this still blows my mind. Especially since we now have vastly more computing power on a high school robot than all of NASA back in '69, yet we can't get humans beyond LEO.
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Also, remember that traveling deeper into space has other challenges that haven't been solved yet. Mainly, how do you stop radiation that causes cancer on prolonged missions as well as muscle mass degrading. We COULD go past LEO, but the risks to the astronauts are much too high at this point.