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When rocket scientists pitched hotels on the Moon
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Decades before billionaires started joyriding in rockets, Wernher von Braun and mid-century rocket scientists tried to secure government funding by pitching the public on zero-gravity cocktail lounges. The 'Mappa Selenographica' and concept art of lunar tourist hotels were pure, calculated mid-century propaganda designed to justify astronomical space budgets to regular taxpayers.
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