Despite what Elon Musk says, colonizing Mars will most definitely accelerate climate change on Earth, & the YT algorithm is clearly smart enough to know this 😂
Honestly, these bots do way more harm than good when it comes to drawing attention to issues that we should actually care about. They take way too many things out of context and overall damage otherwise worthwhile narratives and causes.
As part of the New Jersey General Electric team that decoded the final temperature telemetry for the mars spacecraft that exploded propellant lines around Mars, we saw some pretty high temperatures. It turns out that O-ring seals for valves normally opened after launch allowed fuel and/or oxidizer to pass through the O-rings into the feed lines for the thrusters over the course of the interplanetary trip. It was a communications satellite bus pressed into service as a Mars orbiter. Our Denver branch mixed up the english and metric units. Thanks for the retrospective. Extremely well done.
A "Brief" history of Mars Opens video - ~1 hr 45 min. That's the undersell of the year in my book. I am going to have to break it into a couple viewing sessions but it's great so far. But then again, I expect nothing less. Your content is always top notch; all the facts and nothing but the facts.
Currently listening to this while part of a sailing crew crossing the Mediterranean. One, thanks to starlink. Two, makes me think about what future crews crossing the sea of space between Earth and Mars will endure.
Hey, small update to your video! Recently today an InSight lander experiment got reviewed and published and showed evidence of liquid water under the surface of mars. Great video!
I've volunteerd on a JPL-project at Zooniverse to help building an AI-model which should assist the next rovers with autonomously driving on Mars. Getting images to classify with parts of Perseverance and Curiosity in high detail is very interesting, made me appreciate everyone behind these incredible projects even more! Our work increased the accuracy from 41% to 91%, can't wait to see these next generations of rovers in action.
I came here from Venus - your Venus video, in which you cleverly mention this video. I refuse to say advertise as this implies overselling and not living up to expectations which this exceeds. Glad to have found your channel and now subscribed. Having classified on citizen science projects such as Planet 4 and A1Mars, and now Cloudspotting on MARS it's always good to see martian landscape shots.
Great video, thx for uploading. The lenght is not a problem, there used to be places called cinemas, where they showed full lenght movies in one run and people had no problem sitting trough it (and getting totally ripped off, by paying about 10x too much for popcorn and paying to watch 10minutes of adds). Here i have a pause button. I actually want longer videos, to have more to enjoy. Keep going and have fun!
The more you look into Cassini, the wilder it really was. Imo we haven’t done anything that crazy since. Would be cool to see a Cassini deep dive video.
3 : 24 "Aristotle for instance noticed that Mars would pass behind the moon and therefore must be further away." which is the oldest Eric Dubay pre-debunking I now know of. GreaterSapien just did 134 & 135 which includes another claim of Moon transparency which is impossible if Mars is occulted by the Moon showing it is further away.
It sounds like Mars exploration could benefit from something like a windshield wiper to periodically sweep dust off the solar cells. A number of missions could have been extended by the application of such a device.
I think leaving soil sample tubes scattered on the surface was an extremely stupid idea. They should have all been stored on the rover for a simpler single retrieval to a return lander.
I wonder… since dust on solar panels seems to be the main cause of death for various probes… are there any efforts to figure out a system to clean the panels?
In short, it's too expensive and heavy. It's easier to design them to work for a limited lifespan. Or, like more recent rovers, reject panels and use RTGs.
@@gorgonbert I believe NASA has done some preliminary work on using electrical charges to repel dust from solar panels and other systems. Like DKiS said, it's just easier, cheaper and less of a mass penalty to either do nothing, make solar panels slightly more efficient or use an RTG.
I bet, when humans colonize Mars, we're gonna build museums around the Vikings, Spirit, Opportunity, & more. Have it encased in glass, visible from everywhere in the building. Seems only natural given 1) Those are pieces of history & 2) We're sentimental
@@DKiSAerospaceHistory Sorry. I thought it was pretty obvious that it was just a joke at the expense of the opening line of VO, which is a little distorted. But if you actually wanna know; the narration/VO is very loud and distorted at first; it improves, but then there are variations - albeit slight - in the level and the distortion of voiceless alveolar fricatives in the VO throughout. If you're using a compressor on your voice, a higher ratio and slower attack might help (or, use a compressor if you're not); possibly a de-esser; and, to make sure the distance of your mouth from the mic is consistent from one recording session to another. Use your pop filter as a guide. But it could also be an artefact of compression during rendering or from UA-cam's compression. Aside from the few minor audio things, it was a brilliantly made documentary. I enjoyed it immensely. Great work!
Love the video. More of this please! just a tiny note :) I think at around 1.20 you keep switching between saying indian and israely mission. pretty sure it wasnt a colab? ^^
Absolutely another amazing video! ❤ I’m honestly impressed that you were able to make this video on such a time crunch and with a broken computer! But as a SpaceX nerd I was sad to see that you didn’t include their future mars missions 😂 maybe that’s for a future video?
Well, they don't have any that are actually planned out with any detail yet. As soon as they have a properly published architecture for a Mars mission, I will absolutely cover it. I'm very hopeful about what Starship will be able to do for future Mars missions.
@@DKiSAerospaceHistory Not nearly as much as they promise, unfortunately. I did some math, and... let's just say their lofty promises can't really work. Like, their super-rocket simply can't fit a hundred people per trip - not without them going crazy from cramped space, that is. Or that they completely ignore radiation protection and life support as "easy", when those are in fact the largest unknowns. I could go on, but I won't waste your time anymore. It's just something to read deeper on
@@DKiSAerospaceHistory Enough is done to know a few things, though. The payload bay is not getting bigger, the material isn't getting any less dense...
vid is well worth the wait....please do a mars colony video also lol i love to see space x land a starship use one of there tesla bots to get the samples and just yeet them into the open bay of starship LOL
Mars Insight's microphone quality is terrible, it sounds lie putting my ear up to a slinky and hearing things through that. Almost as if Mars's atmosphere is extremely thin...
@@DKiSAerospaceHistory Huh, thats weird. I saw Mars through my 10" telescope many times, i always thought the edge being fuzzy was simply due to the earths atmosphere, other planets are slighty fuzzy too, so i dont know anymore.
Good Morning brother, dont worry, Im still lurking about lol. I had 2 accounts banned for some retarded reasons but im still here lol. I hope you get everything sorted out. I wish my monetary battle would end soon but something always seems to come up and put me behind again. Hard to keep my head above water but im still breathing. I wish i could find a job that i actually enjoyed and can thrive at but i guess that isnt in the cards yet. Just remember that no matter what, we are still here rooting you on brother. Keep up the amazing work. Mu h love and respect from Southern Indiana sir.
My guess on SpaceX's proposal is "We'll do it with Starship". You know, just in case it gets anywhere near Mars before the end of the decade (It won't, by the way, SpaceX has done fairly little space exploration for a company which literally made that its name)
That is their proposal. I can't imagine why a for-profit launch provider would go off doing scientific work on their own, without anyone paying them to do it. They're not a space agency and that's not how any of this works.
@@DKiSAerospaceHistory Well, if they wanna put colonies on Mars, they're gonna have to send those probes eventually. Just saying. Sure, they could wait for NASA to lay the groundwork for them, but try going up to investors and saying "Yeah so we could send our own probes, but that is, like, expensive, so instead we'll just wait until others get around to it. I swear we'll colonize Mars eventually though!" and then convince them to give you funding for the project. Hell, even if they fund it out of pocket, and if Starlink ever gets anywhere close to what they want it to be, they probably could, our current scientific understanding of Mars isn't anywhere near where we'd need it to be in order to build anything resembling a self-sustaining colony. Before you can even think about going there, you're gonna need to find a good spot. That means finding a good water supply (I don't know about you, but scraping the entire surface of Mars off to get to the water ice beneath it doesn't sound like a sustainable plan long term) nearby sources of all the materials you might wanna have, ideally a lava tube for shelter in case of solar storms, and in the middle of all that, a nice, open space to build the colony in. We are still at least a decade away from finding such a place, simply because anyone has yet to send any sort of equipment geared to actually finding such spots. And that is not even mentioning all the orbital infrastructure you might want to have in place before placing your colony down. And sure, you can wait for NASA and others to send those probes, but do you really wanna wait that long when you have the technology to build and send those things here and now? Same thing for colonizing the Moon. They have the tech to start doing the groundwork for that now. Why wait for NASA and others to do the groundwork in however many years it takes Congress to push the funding for it through when you could get started on that today and get there before NASA even gets approval? Not to mention we'll need to do long term work on the Moon anyway, just to make sure all those fancy systems we think up for Mars actually work. The Moon isn't a perfect analog, but it's closer than Earth. (And yes, i know about Artemis, but that's hardly comparable; we're talking about astronauts staying for a few weeks at a time vs long term habitation, ISS style, plus extensive mining and refinery efforts, that's an apples and oranges comparison) And besides, every tech company has an R&D department, but if you don't even know what you are researching and developing for, you can't do R&D, so these things would be neat to know ahead of time.
Without SpaceX's rockets, American space exploration efforts would have fallen behind the Chinese space agencies years ago. They build and sell spacecraft to explorers, the company itself doesn't do the exploring. A small fleet of Starships flying back and forth from Mars every transfer window is a whole new level of exploration compared to throwing one experiment at a time on modified ICBMs.
ISRO, the Indian Space Research Organization, is the national space agency of India.
I did not say "Israel."
That threw me for a bit, but I got the memo the third time around. 😂
I was really wondering about that "on the cheap" shot.
It is terribly fascinating that this is somehow a relief.
that's why people pronounce ISRO either "ice-row" or letter by letter and not as "israel" with an accent
LOL UA-cam put a 'human induced climate change' flag on your Mars exploration video. Priceless.
Apparently I said the word "climate" too many times for the stupid algorithm that doesn't understand I'm talking about a different planet.
@@DKiSAerospaceHistory Clearly, the algorithm is just a big fan of terraforming
Despite what Elon Musk says, colonizing Mars will most definitely accelerate climate change on Earth, & the YT algorithm is clearly smart enough to know this 😂
Honestly, these bots do way more harm than good when it comes to drawing attention to issues that we should actually care about. They take way too many things out of context and overall damage otherwise worthwhile narratives and causes.
Pretty much any video that has a planet gets the same article.
As part of the New Jersey General Electric team that decoded the final temperature telemetry for the mars spacecraft that exploded propellant lines around Mars, we saw some pretty high temperatures. It turns out that O-ring seals for valves normally opened after launch allowed fuel and/or oxidizer to pass through the O-rings into the feed lines for the thrusters over the course of the interplanetary trip. It was a communications satellite bus pressed into service as a Mars orbiter. Our Denver branch mixed up the english and metric units. Thanks for the retrospective. Extremely well done.
A "Brief" history of Mars
Opens video - ~1 hr 45 min.
That's the undersell of the year in my book. I am going to have to break it into a couple viewing sessions but it's great so far. But then again, I expect nothing less. Your content is always top notch; all the facts and nothing but the facts.
And now I’m mourning the loss of Opportunity again. 😢 Rest easy, friend.
Currently listening to this while part of a sailing crew crossing the Mediterranean. One, thanks to starlink. Two, makes me think about what future crews crossing the sea of space between Earth and Mars will endure.
That is super cool.
You made me want to do something that I just realized I really wanted to do
@@adamemmrich283 what's that
Another belter, especially considering all your PC trials and tribulations. Well done.
1:14:25 I remember when I first saw the sky crane concept and thought “there’s no way this is going to work”… I was never so glad to have been wrong 😉
When I first saw the inflatable bouncing airbag concept and thought "that will never work". Glad I was proven wrong!!
Thanks! - what a wonderful way to spend a Sunday afternoon , the work that must have gone into this beggers belief - thank you
Thank you so much!
FYI when u donate to UA-camrs do it on patreon. UA-cam takes like 20% of all donations done through UA-cam. It’s pretty gross.
the return of the king
One of my earliest memories is going to my grandma's house for the 4th of July party in 1997, watching the landing coverage of Mars Pathfinder.
Hey, small update to your video! Recently today an InSight lander experiment got reviewed and published and showed evidence of liquid water under the surface of mars.
Great video!
42:40 "This is maybe the most frustrating failure in the history of spaceflight."
Boeing: Hold my Beer. 😂
I've volunteerd on a JPL-project at Zooniverse to help building an AI-model which should assist the next rovers with autonomously driving on Mars. Getting images to classify with parts of Perseverance and Curiosity in high detail is very interesting, made me appreciate everyone behind these incredible projects even more!
Our work increased the accuracy from 41% to 91%, can't wait to see these next generations of rovers in action.
I came here from Venus - your Venus video, in which you cleverly mention this video. I refuse to say advertise as this implies overselling and not living up to expectations which this exceeds. Glad to have found your channel and now subscribed.
Having classified on citizen science projects such as Planet 4 and A1Mars, and now Cloudspotting on MARS it's always good to see martian landscape shots.
Yooooooo
The goat is back with another upload!!
Hello my favourite German
@@InsertGenuineName oh no I've been found
Canopus star tracking system. Only error: does not track Canopus
This was awesome, can’t wait for part 2 in 60 years
This is the earliest I've ever been to one of your videos! This is going to be a great watch!
it's a good day when DKiS uploads another banger video.
Perfect for falling asleep to! 😅 I'm going to have to listen to this at work with a fresh Red Bull in me, but I promise I will finish it! Great work!
Keep doing what you're doing big man. This is the content I live for
8/10 pronunciation of "Christiaan Huygens". Well done.
I'll take it lol
Great video, thx for uploading. The lenght is not a problem, there used to be places called cinemas, where they showed full lenght movies in one run and people had no problem sitting trough it (and getting totally ripped off, by paying about 10x too much for popcorn and paying to watch 10minutes of adds).
Here i have a pause button. I actually want longer videos, to have more to enjoy.
Keep going and have fun!
The more you look into Cassini, the wilder it really was. Imo we haven’t done anything that crazy since. Would be cool to see a Cassini deep dive video.
Love these videos. Well researched content, pleasant voice and good writing.
Again well worth waiting for your work on these subjects.
the Opportunity bit brought me to tears
3 : 24 "Aristotle for instance noticed that Mars would pass behind the moon and therefore must be further away." which is the oldest Eric Dubay pre-debunking I now know of. GreaterSapien just did 134 & 135 which includes another claim of Moon transparency which is impossible if Mars is occulted by the Moon showing it is further away.
This is an absolute masterpiece from you again! Many congratulations and keep up the fantastic work!
Damn I’m legitimately upset Viking 1 came to an end like that. Poor guy 😢
Thank you for yet another well researched episode!
I learned so much from this video, as usual XD Thank you so much for making it!
Why does this channel only have a little less than 21k subs? Excellent content and delivery. Well done
Another fantastic banger, your videos are always worth the wait. Keep it up :)
You’ll be up there with Scott Manley one day.
I was literally looking for this video last night, ever since I saw the community post I’ve been waiting patiently. Glad it’s finally here!
Been hyped for this ever since the initial twitter posts about it :D
There's silicone on Mars?! Fun!
Though that feels like more of a Venus thing...
Outstanding! Any day these videos post is a good day!
It would be SOOOO Cool to have one of these things to roll up on a fossil bed.
Another absolute banger!
great video, as always!
2 hours of mars? Hell yeah!
Fun fact, the Curiosity landing was streamed on Xbox Live during the 360 era.
Thanks Aaron
Leaving a comment because this is high quality content and I want you to get 100 times the subscribers you have now.
Thank you Misaka, very cool ❤️
8:17 Beer Land on Mars. I’m packing my things
35:18 Or when you are stuck on Mars and need a DIY heater lol.
It sounds like Mars exploration could benefit from something like a windshield wiper to periodically sweep dust off the solar cells. A number of missions could have been extended by the application of such a device.
Another video, another banger
“Brief” love it 😂
there are a lot more orbiters than i thought. perfect video. i miss insight so much
2 hours 'brief history' 5 stars
I think leaving soil sample tubes scattered on the surface was an extremely stupid idea. They should have all been stored on the rover for a simpler single retrieval to a return lander.
Love this video
I wonder… since dust on solar panels seems to be the main cause of death for various probes… are there any efforts to figure out a system to clean the panels?
In short, it's too expensive and heavy. It's easier to design them to work for a limited lifespan. Or, like more recent rovers, reject panels and use RTGs.
@@gorgonbert I believe NASA has done some preliminary work on using electrical charges to repel dust from solar panels and other systems. Like DKiS said, it's just easier, cheaper and less of a mass penalty to either do nothing, make solar panels slightly more efficient or use an RTG.
AmaInf work my man, keep it up! 💯 lots of love from Australia 🇦🇺
*Amazing
I bet, when humans colonize Mars, we're gonna build museums around the Vikings, Spirit, Opportunity, & more. Have it encased in glass, visible from everywhere in the building. Seems only natural given 1) Those are pieces of history & 2) We're sentimental
"Audio ... the single aspect of film making most neglected by UA-camrs."
If you're not going to offer a suggestion for improvement, this comment is as useless as it is annoying.
@@DKiSAerospaceHistory Sorry. I thought it was pretty obvious that it was just a joke at the expense of the opening line of VO, which is a little distorted.
But if you actually wanna know; the narration/VO is very loud and distorted at first; it improves, but then there are variations - albeit slight - in the level and the distortion of voiceless alveolar fricatives in the VO throughout. If you're using a compressor on your voice, a higher ratio and slower attack might help (or, use a compressor if you're not); possibly a de-esser; and, to make sure the distance of your mouth from the mic is consistent from one recording session to another. Use your pop filter as a guide. But it could also be an artefact of compression during rendering or from UA-cam's compression.
Aside from the few minor audio things, it was a brilliantly made documentary. I enjoyed it immensely. Great work!
This video is awesome. Thank you. Hey, do you have any astronomy channels that you recommend?
Astrum has some great astronomy content. Also JW Astronomy.
1:23:25 opportunity: “yo I got to get this shit on live leak!”
Great video
At 43:57 the UA-cam chapter still says Phobos despite it being about Mars Observer and MGS :3
I didn't set the chapters, UA-cam does that automatically. Thank you, though.
Back in the kitchen and cooked up another great video!! 🙌
NEW VIDEO LETS GO.
Love the video. More of this please!
just a tiny note :) I think at around 1.20 you keep switching between saying indian and israely mission. pretty sure it wasnt a colab? ^^
I was saying "ISRO", which is the space agency of India.
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1:12:39 "Jack Parsons Lab"
Could you post books/websites or places that you learn the information for your documentaries, would be super helpful!
I will update the descriptions, though a lot of it is just straight from NASA or ESA websites.
Absolutely another amazing video! ❤ I’m honestly impressed that you were able to make this video on such a time crunch and with a broken computer! But as a SpaceX nerd I was sad to see that you didn’t include their future mars missions 😂 maybe that’s for a future video?
Well, they don't have any that are actually planned out with any detail yet. As soon as they have a properly published architecture for a Mars mission, I will absolutely cover it. I'm very hopeful about what Starship will be able to do for future Mars missions.
@@DKiSAerospaceHistory new video in 2036? 😆
@@DKiSAerospaceHistory Not nearly as much as they promise, unfortunately. I did some math, and... let's just say their lofty promises can't really work. Like, their super-rocket simply can't fit a hundred people per trip - not without them going crazy from cramped space, that is. Or that they completely ignore radiation protection and life support as "easy", when those are in fact the largest unknowns. I could go on, but I won't waste your time anymore. It's just something to read deeper on
@HalNordmann you can't really do the math on a vehicle that isn't done.
@@DKiSAerospaceHistory Enough is done to know a few things, though. The payload bay is not getting bigger, the material isn't getting any less dense...
vid is well worth the wait....please do a mars colony video also lol i love to see space x land a starship use one of there tesla bots to get the samples and just yeet them into the open bay of starship LOL
Great video, keep it up.
NASA is getting close to announce life on mars.
The Lightning Scarred Planet Mars
Documentary, check it out.
Great vid DKIS 👌
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banger
well what do you know... OOGA BOOGA BOYS ANOTHER ACCURATE AF SCIENCE VIDEO
im telling you dawg, viking 1 went rogue, after getting pissed off at the renaming.
that one russian technician who violated procedure went surely to gulag
We are so back
Wow
"Brief" lol
I oi
Hell yes
Baby lets goooo
40:28 I'm gonna guess you meant Silicon, not Silicone.
Yes, thank you.
"brief"
30 wat hours per sol..... you mean 30 pirate-ninjas
30 electromajigs per doohickey
Guess the movie:
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Mars Insight's microphone quality is terrible, it sounds lie putting my ear up to a slinky and hearing things through that. Almost as if Mars's atmosphere is extremely thin...
And Russian engineering hasn't gotten much better.
6:02 By edges you meant the terminator line?
No I mean the edges, where the planet ends and space begins.
@@DKiSAerospaceHistory Huh, thats weird. I saw Mars through my 10" telescope many times, i always thought the edge being fuzzy was simply due to the earths atmosphere, other planets are slighty fuzzy too, so i dont know anymore.
@polishkerbal6920 they interpreted the fuzz to be its atmosphere. It is in fact mostly ours.
@@DKiSAerospaceHistoryOhh alright that makes sense, thanks for clearing things up
Warszawa
"Brief" lol 😂
Today it's more crypto scammers and cabbage pickles tbh.
what
Mars needs women
You used "BCE". Unsubbed. Get that politically correct jargon out of your life.
lol
Don't let the door hit your ass 😀
Ain’t no way lmfao
@@debott4538 lmao, even
@NerdilyDone sounds like you're one of them fragile little snowflakes, bye bye!
Good Morning brother, dont worry, Im still lurking about lol. I had 2 accounts banned for some retarded reasons but im still here lol. I hope you get everything sorted out. I wish my monetary battle would end soon but something always seems to come up and put me behind again. Hard to keep my head above water but im still breathing. I wish i could find a job that i actually enjoyed and can thrive at but i guess that isnt in the cards yet. Just remember that no matter what, we are still here rooting you on brother. Keep up the amazing work. Mu h love and respect from Southern Indiana sir.
I love when space UA-camrs make long form videos. It’s my favorite kind of video on the platform! Thank you for the hard work!
My guess on SpaceX's proposal is "We'll do it with Starship". You know, just in case it gets anywhere near Mars before the end of the decade (It won't, by the way, SpaceX has done fairly little space exploration for a company which literally made that its name)
That is their proposal.
I can't imagine why a for-profit launch provider would go off doing scientific work on their own, without anyone paying them to do it. They're not a space agency and that's not how any of this works.
@@DKiSAerospaceHistory Well, if they wanna put colonies on Mars, they're gonna have to send those probes eventually. Just saying.
Sure, they could wait for NASA to lay the groundwork for them, but try going up to investors and saying "Yeah so we could send our own probes, but that is, like, expensive, so instead we'll just wait until others get around to it. I swear we'll colonize Mars eventually though!" and then convince them to give you funding for the project.
Hell, even if they fund it out of pocket, and if Starlink ever gets anywhere close to what they want it to be, they probably could, our current scientific understanding of Mars isn't anywhere near where we'd need it to be in order to build anything resembling a self-sustaining colony.
Before you can even think about going there, you're gonna need to find a good spot. That means finding a good water supply (I don't know about you, but scraping the entire surface of Mars off to get to the water ice beneath it doesn't sound like a sustainable plan long term) nearby sources of all the materials you might wanna have, ideally a lava tube for shelter in case of solar storms, and in the middle of all that, a nice, open space to build the colony in. We are still at least a decade away from finding such a place, simply because anyone has yet to send any sort of equipment geared to actually finding such spots. And that is not even mentioning all the orbital infrastructure you might want to have in place before placing your colony down.
And sure, you can wait for NASA and others to send those probes, but do you really wanna wait that long when you have the technology to build and send those things here and now?
Same thing for colonizing the Moon. They have the tech to start doing the groundwork for that now. Why wait for NASA and others to do the groundwork in however many years it takes Congress to push the funding for it through when you could get started on that today and get there before NASA even gets approval? Not to mention we'll need to do long term work on the Moon anyway, just to make sure all those fancy systems we think up for Mars actually work. The Moon isn't a perfect analog, but it's closer than Earth. (And yes, i know about Artemis, but that's hardly comparable; we're talking about astronauts staying for a few weeks at a time vs long term habitation, ISS style, plus extensive mining and refinery efforts, that's an apples and oranges comparison)
And besides, every tech company has an R&D department, but if you don't even know what you are researching and developing for, you can't do R&D, so these things would be neat to know ahead of time.
@@DKiSAerospaceHistory Why does anyone do anything?
@@DKiSAerospaceHistoryi mean, there’s nothing afaik that says they _can’t_
Without SpaceX's rockets, American space exploration efforts would have fallen behind the Chinese space agencies years ago. They build and sell spacecraft to explorers, the company itself doesn't do the exploring. A small fleet of Starships flying back and forth from Mars every transfer window is a whole new level of exploration compared to throwing one experiment at a time on modified ICBMs.
This was most certainly worth the wait!
What's next? The history of asteroid and comet exploration?