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Great engineering feat but it was a dumb idea to begin with. Just like sending people to Mars. Luckily nobody died, excluding the fish of course.

This is tangent from the topic at hand but I'm curious to pick your brain. Why is it a dumb idea to send people to Mars?

For the same reason it was a dumb idea to put a dog in orbit without the means to return it back to Earth alive.