So we've been in space 50 years now, and...

Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's flight into orbit, becoming the first man in space. We've made achievements since then in space exploration. The first dual-manned flight came on 11 August 1962. On 18 March 1965, the first spacewalk was conducted. In December 1968, humans orbited the moon. And on 21 July 1969, the first humans walked on the moon.



And not much has happened since then. The last people left the moon on December 14, 1972, and it's been 35 years since someone has walked on the moon, or any other celestial body. Instead, NASA spent all their money on a space shuttle which has killed 14 astronauts, and does nothing other than act as a ferry between the ISS and earth. There were no deaths of astronauts in the Apollo program (excluding the Apollo 1 training fire, which was not part of an actual mission), and it's accomplished a lot more for us. Instead of trying to build the new Orion spacecraft, let's just restart the Apollo program. It's safe, reliable, and works better than anything else we've tried.