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I know we don't live in the Apollo era, and timelines are much longer for space missions - but it's such a great time to look to the skies and imagine where we'll be within our lifetimes.

Hats off to the people that work night and day to get these widgets to their destinations, perform their jobs, and bring them home. I wish my skillset translated to these fields because I'd take a 50% paycut and ditch all my options to go into the field in a heartbeat.

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You're right. The timelines are so long, I'm pretty sure more than a few exciting and really expensive space missions you will not see in your lifetime. We are at hundreds of years from real space colonies.

Invest in cryonics and be able to wake up in time.

Entrust your body to a corporation? Only once the end of normal life is nigh anyways.

Welcome to Night Vale has an interesting take on this, which is:

Why should the future care about you or your desires? To the future, you are simply a resource.

We are just entrusting our minds to Social Networks, so that's not that far from being acceptable

On the other hand, the more missions/programs start now, the more excitement there will be in the future when they're being completed. If companies and countries keep at it, it will soon be a long string of space missions in the news.

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