The space crew today is in its older stage, which gives us to understand the lack of continuity in the technological development in terms of sending a manned mission to outer space again, but we should not be discouraged, because independent companies like Space X have programs aimed at space exploration and with the current technology compared to that used in the era of Apollo 11, the steps are much larger and accelerated. The colonization and exploration for human beings is a whole process, the fact that programs are disabled for the moment does not mean that they have marked a permanent closure, it is just a pause as has happened before in the history of mankind, in the colonization and discovery of America we can find an example, so it is best not to despair.
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found so far and there are only suppositions, because, although together with the Apollo 11's trip and its return many scientific advances met in the different lunar rocks that provided enough information to discover the history of our solar system, it is thought that the trip to the Moon was no more than a whim on the part of the president and the ego of the United States of America, however, this ego is still present in the current president who seeks to put man on the Moon by 2024, a fact motivated by the vanity of the nation, this because other unmanned expedi-tions have had more information from outer space at a highly reduced cost compared to Apollo 11.
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little that, sometimes unjustified, thirst of exploration to put us to think if it is really necessary that dream so desired to find life or possibilities of living beyond our Earth, presents us the fact of playing with spaceships like that, a simple whim smoking for wanting to self overcome in the reflection of another nation as in the case of the cold war, in an attempt to climb the walls of our own laughter, we do not realize the great underlying problem that unifies their motives in that growing fear of not being first or best, all because we do not first question whether the motives for doing anything we do are well-supported: That is why stopping to think even leaving the glasses half empty as in the case of the time gap between the first moon landing and the one programmed for the most recent date are perfect opportunities to reflect and reconsider the relevance of meeting first as a society, and from the point of view of the editors of this magazine, technological progress is the wheels of the chariot that carries humanity, governments and important people are the ones who guide the chariots through the desired path (sometimes good, sometimes not so good) and we as crewmembers must decide that path as humanity. Now, speaking more specifically about the topics considered in space exploration, it is an important task but not essential at the moment, because there are higher order issues which must be addressed first for the benefit of the crewmembers, ourselves.
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Thomas Ken Mathingly (83 years old, youngest of the 12 remaining astronauts who landed on the Moon)