Newer is Not Better, Lunar Edition
"Where's my leaping Armstrong? I want a refund!"
Lunar missions are not new. They're very old. The Soviets landed objects on the Moon (unmanned) a very long time ago.
In 1969 the US landed humans there and brought them back to Earth.
In 2026 (almost 57 years later) we send people in a vessel to "pass by" the Moon and get them back.
Are we moving forward?
Well, we have machines that pack in lots of transistors and are generally smaller, but what we are accomplishing?
Think about it.
Newer is not always better.
Maybe in 57 years (2083, after all these wars) we'll manage to launch a capsule with a human and a dog above the stratosphere again. █
Image source: Bust of Trotsky