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there's also a Chinese space station but it's not currently occupied.

The last mission past low earth orbit was Apollo 17.

As far as I know, SpaceX are the only ones planning on taking crews further out, first with a mission around the moon, and then possibly Mars

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There are plenty of other programs with "planned" missions to the moon and mars. You can question whether or not they'll happen, but you can do that about SpaceX too.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Launch_System - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mission_to_Mars#Current_...

    > Apollo 17

Jeez, 45 years since the last person walked on the moon.

45 years since anyone has been more than 330 miles from earth. totally pathetic.

Wow, whenever I am reminded that a human hasn't been on the moon since 1972 it just blows my mind.

I mean.. I guess it's probably easier and cheaper and safer to send a robot, but I would think that at least one nation would decide to flex their muscles in the "yea that's right, we can afford to do this" way. Oh how I dream of such forms of international posturing!

Space exploration had a lot to do with the development of military icbms. Now it has become almost commodity tech for developed countries so the need to show off is far less.

What's the highest low earth orbit manned mission? The Hubble repair?

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