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Have you ever wondered how we could visit the moon seven times in the sixties and seventies, but can't seem to be able to return even fifty years later?
It seems amazing to me, because I witnessed the moon-landings live on TV, that we should have had moon bases by 1980 and should have reached Mars by 2000.
This essay explains, clearly and concisely why it didn't happen, but also why it might occur in the near future.
I'm a writer of speculative or science fiction, categorised as 'hard science fiction' and I spend a lot of time making sure that my novels are as accurate and realistic as possible. The idea for this essay came out of my research into the whys and why-nots.
Going to Mars, the essay. Get it today!
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Going To Mars - Tony Harmsworth
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Details can be found at the end of GETTING TO MARS.
1 A Complex Story
Note for non-British readers – Tony writes using UK English spelling, punctuation and grammar.
I suppose I should say that, at my age, I no longer believe that I’ll see humans set foot on Mars, but it really doesn’t matter.
There is a complex story unfolding here and it is also tied in with the flat-Earthers, moon-landing-deniers and those who cannot understand how we could land on the moon fifty years ago but seem to be unable to do so today.
I hope this essay will tie it all together for you.
Firstly, we need to think about why we have not returned to the moon nor gone on to Mars in the last fifty years.
When I watched Armstrong and Aldrin on live TV, bunny-hopping around the surface in 1969, like most forward-thinking people at the time, it seemed pretty obvious that there would be a Moonbase or two within a decade and we’d be landing on Mars by the end of the millennium. By today, we expected there to be a Martian colony on the red planet, and that we’d be mining the moon
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