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Then landers now rovers and of course ingenuity, the brave little toaster that flies on the surface of Mars.

This comes out of the Cold War and Matt, you make an ironic point that the Cold War came to a moment where the US had successfully defeated the Soviets and the race to the moon.

And a presentation was made by NASA to then Nixon administration to reproduce the Apollo program on Mars.

What happened Matt?

Yeah, so you know, there was this moment within NASA where the success of the Apollo program to many was sort of an indication that NASA was so good at what it did that it should continue to basically push the envelope to continue with the same level of funding and continue the US leadership in space by moving from from the moon to Mars with a similar program.

But you know, the politics at home, we're not really suitable for that right like the US public had, you know, enjoyed the Apollo program, but had not always been happy with the amount of money that it actually took to to get humans to the moon.

And Nixon, who was president at the time, you know, he felt the political winds changing. He felt that it was important to shift focus to more domestic issues like poverty, like civil rights, you know, other issues that were becoming important to the American people or have been already important, but you know with with Apollo having been a success.

It was time he felt to kind of pull back and make space exploration have to compete with other national priorities.

And that's essentially where we get NASA of today with its post Apollo budget levels never going back up to, you know, the levels that in the Cold War really expressed that space was not just a priority, but the top national priority in competition with the Soviet Union.

But really good robots, Matt really good. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I mean, because one of the things that's happening throughout that whole history of the Apollo program is a very successful robotic exploration program at both the moon and Mars and, you know, those mariners probes that you mentioned going to Mars in the 1960s and early 70s.

You know, they were so successful and improved so much from mission to mission that by the time you get from mariner for the first visit to Mars to then mariner nine the first spacecraft to go into orbit around Mars.

You know, the technology has improved so much that the images coming back in the amount of information coming back from Mars in the early 70s was, you know, and still is kind of mind blowing given the technology of its time.

And then in the mid 70s when when the Viking landers land on Mars and, you know, humans on Earth are able to for the first time operate on the surface of of Mars and, you know, do science with the rocks with the soil that are there at the landing site.

You know, that completely transforms ideas about what we're actually capable of doing in space exploration with robots.

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