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Yul Tolbert
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posted 10/11/04 3:11 PM
Is it me, or is technology going backward? For example, the U.S. space program started with the launch of a satellite that was the size and look of a model rocket. Yet 11 years later, that same space program launched the massive 300-plus-foot Saturn 5 rocket that put humans on the moon. But 11 years after the end of the Apollo program, the U.S. space program had developed a space shuttle system that was not much more advanced than the Saturn 5 system. Now here we are 30 years after the Apollo program and space technology is still -- on the most part -- as primative as it was back then. Sure, there are political reasons for this. But even so, doesn't the decline of the space program seem highly anachronistic? More to the point, haven't other technological fields seem to slowed down or even stop advancing altogether?
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