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Originally Posted by Laz116
Loss of space travel dominance doesn't mean a fall from grace.
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I think it does. But then again, I'm not much of a nationalist, so if America wants to plummet back into mediocrity, it will be okay as long as China and India and Brazil and other countries still on the rise choose to have space programs. A thousand years from now, it won't matter which of the various long dead nation-states did the exploration/colonization, only that it was done.
I'll put it more succinctly, though-- if America gives up on space, America has given up on the future.