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There are plenty of ways the moonshot could have failed. It just didn't fail so that's how it's remembered. Going from 'physics showed it could be done' to actu
by codeulike 10y ago
There are plenty of ways the moonshot could have failed. It just didn't fail so that's how it's remembered. Going from 'physics showed it could be done' to actually doing it is very hard and armies of bright people is not necessarily enough.
- jacques_chester 10y ago> There are plenty of ways the moonshot could have failed. Yes, and they were explored extremely thoroughly by Apollo missions 1 through 10.
- codeulike 10y agoEven well tested rockets still explode sometimes. Rockets are risky, complex, explosive machines. Ask an insurance company about it.
- jacques_chester 10y agoTaking us back to my original point: comparing an MVP or a pure research project to the Apollo program is silly.