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Mnementh said:
curl-6 said:

I really hope we get to Mars and start taking some more series steps forward in terms of space travel in my lifetime.
While some cool stuff has been done in my life like probe missions to Jupiter and Saturn's moons and rovers on Mars, it's going too slowly for my liking.

There basically was a 40 year gap in space travel. Just recently things got picked up again. So recently we had: multiple mars rovers, first mission to a comet, first mission to the backside of the moon. Also a lot of stuff that wasn't done since many years got recently on course, like again a bigger spaceship to the ISS, so that it can operate with full manpower again soon and this one to get moon soil samples back. Also we have way more participants in the space right now, not only the US and Russia. So that all looks promising.

That's true I suppose; in the last 20 years we've also had the first re-landable rocket, first rover on an asteroid, and first encounter with Pluto. It's manned exploration I wish would pick up the pace. Like I say, it'd be awesome to put a human on Mars in the next few decades at least. One can hope I suppose.