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The first big step.



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One of the steps in the evolution of our technological species was to reach the Moon, on December 13 of this year 2022 it will be 50 years since the last human who stepped on the moon was Eugene A. Cernan in the Apollo 17 mission.


They were the last humans on the moon, they were there for 74 hours, 59 minutes and 40 seconds, they drove a Rover through the lunar landscapes and they collected 66 kilos of lunar samples to later bring them home, but the question is why they did not return to the moon .



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But the question is why he didn't go back to the moon. because it was not profitable, nor was it necessary, the objectives of the mission had already been achieved, although socially it may seem somewhat strange since science fiction movies and series showed us a future for the early 21st century of lunar colonies and space travel , but the movies rarely explained what those space colonies would live on, it seemed that it was enough to get to the moon to put a greenhouse where to plant lettuce and potatoes and that everything was already solved but who paid for the fuel to get there, the construction of spaceships, the facilities, the equipment and everything else, all that has a cost.



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An exploration trip is not the same as establishing a colony, it is something very different, a scientific base is also different, an exploration trip is to collect samples and return home, a scientific base is to have a dozen scientists investigating in a permanent there, living and a colony is already a much higher level, there it is in families, there in a colony humans are born who are going to consider the colony their home, their homeland and that is a much more complex level.



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On May 25, 1961 John F Kennedy announced in Congress his commitment to take a man to the moon and bring him safely back to earth, that before the end of the decade of the 60s, the United States at that time was faced the Soviet Union or the Soviet Union against the United States, it was a cold war, but with very hot and bloody conflicts such as the Korean War with 2.5 deaths or the Vietnam War between 1 and 3 million deaths.

In a cold war also between two ideologies, that of the Soviet Union and that of the United States, communism and capitalism, but what the image that was being translated with the space race is that the Soviet Union was leading the vanguard Of technology, it is possible that here I was not like that and that technologically the two powers were balanced or that the United States was even more advanced technologically, but the image that the space achievements of the Soviets gave was that they were ahead technologically and in At no time in the history of humanity has it been good for your soldiers and your people to believe that they are technologically inferior to their rivals, and even less so when a global conflict is at hand.



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We had to change that image and show the world who was Technologically Superior and for this the chosen challenge was to reach the moon, which by the way, was a challenge in which the Soviets were also engaged, they were also preparing their lunar mission so that astronauts or Soviet cosmonauts set foot on the moon, to win that race the United States mobilized enormous resources, more than 400,000 people participated in the Apollo program, some 106 billion euros were invested.


The space program came to account for 5.3% of the national budget in 1965, that's brutal, but once the challenge was met, once it was shown who had the technological superiority and once the scientific objectives were achieved, there was no reason to continue sending Humans to the moon, there was nothing on the moon that could pay for the trip to it, not even if the astronauts returned loaded with gold could the trips be financed, there were other better objectives to dedicate the money to, build schools, hospitals or other programs scientific research; but today the priorities have changed, to conquer Mars you have to conquer the moon first.




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