• TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    We wasted 30 years puttering around low Earth orbit with the space shuttle without making any real progress at all, meanwhile all the old Apollo engineers have retired or passed away, and the infrastructure to build everything doesn’t exist anymore (for instance, the F-1 engine. To build that again, you’d have to rebuild all the tooling and test equipment that was used to make it as well). So we basically have to almost start from scratch.