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>>15371373
yes but I'm too lazy to find them. https://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/images17.html

Today in history:
>1942 – A German V-2 rocket reaches a record 85 km (46 nm) in altitude.
>1962 – Project Mercury: Wally Schirra in Sigma 7 launched from Cape Canaveral for a six-orbit flight.
>1985 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight.

>>6936969
Lifetime expenditures on NASA are around $850 billion. Less than a trillion. Lifetime. That much money is a drop in the bucket and certainly not the major issue keeping us from sending living humans past low earth orbit.

Here's another example of that painted backdrop, by way of frontscreen projection.