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.
I think we are in agreement. They could do it if they redesigned the rocket using modern engineering techniques. I don't think they could take an old design and build it today, though. Especially not quickly or cheaply.
As for how long it would take to redesign and build an old rocket, I have no idea. NASA doesn't seem motivated to do anything quickly these days. I think they opted for a new design (SLS/Artemis) with more flexibility for advanced missions, not just to the moon, but to Mars as well.
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.
I think we are in agreement. They could do it if they redesigned the rocket using modern engineering techniques. I don't think they could take an old design and build it today, though. Especially not quickly or cheaply.
As for how long it would take to redesign and build an old rocket, I have no idea. NASA doesn't seem motivated to do anything quickly these days. I think they opted for a new design (SLS/Artemis) with more flexibility for advanced missions, not just to the moon, but to Mars as well.
You can’t build rockets to the moon if all your Nazi rocket scientists are dead.
Oh, did you think all those NASA rockets were designed by American scientists, ha ha ha.