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What's sad is that we didn't yet returned to the moon, and he won't live to see it.

There have been 13 moon walks since the Apollo 11 mission in which he was the first to walk on the moon, spanning 5 missions from 1969-1972, FYI. He was the first, but definitely not the last.

This snarky comment is quite superfluous, I say.

I'm sorry if this came off in a snarky way. I simply wanted to talk about our moon history.

Not sure what was snarky about it, other than the fact that he pointed out that you were incorrect.. He didn't say it rudely at all?

They are different conversations. The first is about humanity returning to the moon, having stopped going, and the other is about people in the first batch.

Misunderstanding both ways, obviously. I'm old enough to have seen Apollo flights live on TV, so his interpretation of my post makes absolutely no sense at all to me (except as a contemptuous insult). "Return to the moon" can only mean "a new post-Apollo mission".

I would've thought it was obvious that he was referring to the past-Apollo era. Did you really not think that? I'd've thought it obvious that Armstrong was aware of all the Apollo missions, so the comment could hardly have been taken as you imply.

And there weren't 13 moon walks after Apollo11, there were 26 in total. There were13 periods of EVA, each with two astronauts.

He waited until we got to Mars...

Humans got to mars? I should pay more attention.

you know what i mean.

Yes, humans got to Mars. Just not in person.

The earliest attempts at Mars exploration were made by the soviets and NASA in the 60s (largely unsuccessful IIRC). In 1976 NASA successfully landed on the Mars (Viking I) and, even more amazingly, sent back color photos.

Curiosity is a great mission, but I'm still more impressed with the Viking missions.

Wait and see.

The Soviet Mars-2 and Mars-3 missions were quite successful (orbiting and landing). Here is a gallery of mars images 1971-1974[1]

The soviets were also the first to land on Luna in 1966 [2] and on Venus in 1975[3]

[1]http://www.mentallandscape.com/C_CatalogMars.htm

[2]http://www.mentallandscape.com/C_CatalogMoon.htm

[3]http://www.mentallandscape.com/C_CatalogVenus.htm

the lack of basic knowledge about human achievement in space is depressing

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