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It's just damn hard to evaluate how many hundreds of thousands people was working for aerospace industry and what would that cost in country with market economy
by SXX 11y ago
It's just damn hard to evaluate how many hundreds of thousands people was working for aerospace industry and what would that cost in country with market economy. There also R&D costs that was at least partially included for ISS while they was almost secret in USSR and most of documents on it are still not declassified since it's all military R&D.
This make me think of story on why something like Saturn V can't be easily replicated as it's was work of so many engineers.
- THRWAWA20160222 11y agoSpeaking of Saturn V engineers, this may interest you, http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-04/16/f-1-moon-rocket/viewall http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-04/16/f-1-moon-rock...
- SXX 11y agoI readed it before, but thanks for posting it anyway since it's really interesting read. Decide to link sources I was referring to. [1] http://amyshirateitel.com/2011/04/03/the-lost-art-of-the-saturn-v/ http://amyshirateitel.com/2011/04/03/the-lost-art-of-the-sat... [2] https://www.quora.com/How-did-we-lose-the-technology-to-go-to-the-Moon/answer/Robert-Frost-1 https://www.quora.com/How-did-we-lose-the-technology-to-go-t...