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Such optimism about space travel from 1970 (infosec.pub)
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[โ€“] idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

First powered flight: 1903. Moon landing: 1969.

Between the first ever flight and landing on a different planet took only 66 years. There were people living in the 1970s who could remember seeing the first planes in their childhood. So from these advances it wasn't really unrealistic to extrapolate to moon bases and whatnots.