Actually it's EXACTLY what the pede just said. They made it to the moon on a graphing calculator, but lost that technology and can't do it again. Don't be a sucker!
no, that's a poor myth, sure we didn't write down every aspect and "lost" the "tech" used to make things such as the original F1 engines, battleship sized cannons and other tech. but as with the F1, we quickly re-learned how to make a better one in a little over a year on NASA time and dime.
it's really just a jobs program, pork for companies jobs & retirement programs for congressmen, SLS could of been done years ago, if they wanted to instead the old cronie companies are milking the cost plus contract system.
You only need to look at spaceX to see what we could of been doing decades ago if the primary force behind developing space infrastructure wasn't the federal government, we had self landing rocket prototypes in the 90's and we've had the technology to make reusable rockets since the 70's
trust me, I live on the space coast, I've talked to the engineers who designed and built the space shuttle, ISS and now SLS, most know how much of a colossal waste it is epically since SpaceX has established such a good track record.
these People were originally very skeptical of a new upstart company going to orbit for so much less, they all assumed SpaceX was shedding safety for speed and cost, turned out it was just NASA bureaucracy excusing all the money spent on development in as many states as possible, on focus groups, management (who caused the challenger disaster, engineers said don't go, too cold!) and over staffing of dozens of engineers who's job was to watch a very few others work, and every part being a unique custom part, it was all justified over and over for "safety" concerns.
these same engineers who have kept track of spacex know the minute starship is flying cargo, SLS is doomed, there's no cost justification for such and expensive launch system when spacex will be flying a fully reusable launch vehicle that is more than TWO orders of magnitude cheaper in cost to orbit. (estimated cost per pound to orbit for SLS=~$18,500, starship <$100) If they're lucky, SLS will get a few launches in before it's canceled for starship.
lmao anyone who believes nasa is a sucker.
nah, it's more like, we could go back to the moon, but we need to fund the Senate Lunch System (SLS)
Actually it's EXACTLY what the pede just said. They made it to the moon on a graphing calculator, but lost that technology and can't do it again. Don't be a sucker!
AGC wasn't even a graphing calculator
collection of hand-wired 3-input NOR gates and ferrite beads
no, that's a poor myth, sure we didn't write down every aspect and "lost" the "tech" used to make things such as the original F1 engines, battleship sized cannons and other tech. but as with the F1, we quickly re-learned how to make a better one in a little over a year on NASA time and dime.
it's really just a jobs program, pork for companies jobs & retirement programs for congressmen, SLS could of been done years ago, if they wanted to instead the old cronie companies are milking the cost plus contract system.
You only need to look at spaceX to see what we could of been doing decades ago if the primary force behind developing space infrastructure wasn't the federal government, we had self landing rocket prototypes in the 90's and we've had the technology to make reusable rockets since the 70's
trust me, I live on the space coast, I've talked to the engineers who designed and built the space shuttle, ISS and now SLS, most know how much of a colossal waste it is epically since SpaceX has established such a good track record.
these People were originally very skeptical of a new upstart company going to orbit for so much less, they all assumed SpaceX was shedding safety for speed and cost, turned out it was just NASA bureaucracy excusing all the money spent on development in as many states as possible, on focus groups, management (who caused the challenger disaster, engineers said don't go, too cold!) and over staffing of dozens of engineers who's job was to watch a very few others work, and every part being a unique custom part, it was all justified over and over for "safety" concerns.
these same engineers who have kept track of spacex know the minute starship is flying cargo, SLS is doomed, there's no cost justification for such and expensive launch system when spacex will be flying a fully reusable launch vehicle that is more than TWO orders of magnitude cheaper in cost to orbit. (estimated cost per pound to orbit for SLS=~$18,500, starship <$100) If they're lucky, SLS will get a few launches in before it's canceled for starship.
Never a straight answer.