Current college students look at the ongoing activities in space as common and mature. Even with billionaires making inroads to space excursions, the rate of success is high, with no particular problems noted in the past 20 years. That success rate does not really provide any insight into the cost of the space program in the years before, which cannot be measured in simply the dollars invested. One consideration most frequently forgotten is the human lives that were part of the cost of success for the space program.
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