That's exactly right. Going to the moon was really expensive and those missions used the Saturn V rocket - the biggest rocket ever launched by the US - which they stopped making in the 1970s. The space shuttle was not capable of reaching the moon - it was billed as a cheap, reusable system for low earth orbit and it ended up being super expensive and time consuming to refurbish (not to mention dangerous). This decision caused NASA to no longer have a moon-capable rocket for humans.
Since the shuttle program ended they've been working on their next moon-capable rocket, the Artemis rocket, but it is years overdue and overbudget and is already outdated compared to the Starship being tested by SpaceX.
Guy… you REALLY believe that? Like take a step back and meditate on it… in a world where every other technology advances forward, that’s the One that regresses ?
It hasn't regressed, they've made advances in rocket technology. The problem is that a rocket is a very complex system that has to get every variable correct or else something very bad happens to the rocket. It's not like they can just rebuild old designs from the 1960s... the fabrication techniques they used then don't exist anymore.
So are you saying that something built in the 1960s, without the aid of design and simulation software we have now, without the current advancement of material fabrication and chemical synthesis is not possible now?
If they done it in 8 years back then, they can at least do it again from scratch in say 5 years? They do not have to reuse any old blueprints! Everything is so much easier and quicker to build nowadays.
The only reason you won't accept it is cognitive dissonance.
It’s the biggest red flag that blows my mind.
“We lost the ability”
That’s just not how technological advancements work. You don’t lose the ability to do something. You choose not to do it.
That's exactly right. Going to the moon was really expensive and those missions used the Saturn V rocket - the biggest rocket ever launched by the US - which they stopped making in the 1970s. The space shuttle was not capable of reaching the moon - it was billed as a cheap, reusable system for low earth orbit and it ended up being super expensive and time consuming to refurbish (not to mention dangerous). This decision caused NASA to no longer have a moon-capable rocket for humans.
Since the shuttle program ended they've been working on their next moon-capable rocket, the Artemis rocket, but it is years overdue and overbudget and is already outdated compared to the Starship being tested by SpaceX.
Guy… you REALLY believe that? Like take a step back and meditate on it… in a world where every other technology advances forward, that’s the One that regresses ?
It hasn't regressed, they've made advances in rocket technology. The problem is that a rocket is a very complex system that has to get every variable correct or else something very bad happens to the rocket. It's not like they can just rebuild old designs from the 1960s... the fabrication techniques they used then don't exist anymore.
So are you saying that something built in the 1960s, without the aid of design and simulation software we have now, without the current advancement of material fabrication and chemical synthesis is not possible now?
If they done it in 8 years back then, they can at least do it again from scratch in say 5 years? They do not have to reuse any old blueprints! Everything is so much easier and quicker to build nowadays.
The only reason you won't accept it is cognitive dissonance.