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On 11/23/2016 at 9:16 PM, Aragosnat said:

Never Visiting Dres

I just realize this sentence was based on historical idea... People actually thought the outer planets would never be visited...

Via NASA historian David S. F. Portree, https://www.wired.com/2015/01/challenge-planets-part-one/ 

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Patrick Moore, for example, wrote in 1955 [......] that no spacecraft would reach Jupiter or Saturn for generations.

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Moore declared that spacecraft might never reach Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto: he wrote, for example, that "we need not waste time working out the possibility of a journey to Uranus," adding that the tilted world would be "left to roll along in its icy solitude, remote, unwelcoming, and lonely beyond our understanding.""

Also from the article:

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Why did 1950s planners feel obligated to include crews on board their interplanetary spacecraft? In those days, it was widely assumed that spacecraft would need continuous repair to remain functional for long enough to reach another planet.

Therefore "crew before probe" was also historically accurate...

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