| How many died? The elapsed calendar time from the birth of the first human to when an electronic drink blender was first invented was much longer, but I wouldn't say that was more effort and sacrifice than getting to the moon. Do you know how many lives were lost in Germany, prisoners marched in the cold by force, a huge number of them dying along the way, to dig underground missile production factories with their bare hands, being shot if they stopped? Or that those men leading those atrocious slave factories were then effectively saved from certain death from war crime tribunal, just to help with the early U.S. rocket program that went into the moon effort?[1][2] That's not even including the sacrifices leading up to it by the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., which I'd include in the overall effort[3][4]. [1]- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip [2]- https://amazon.com/Operation-Paperclip-Intelligence-Program-... [3]- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Space_accidents_and_i... [4]- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_ac... |