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I don't think the tech is so much lost, as it's not worth it to use anymore. A complete replica of an apollo mission could be stood up pretty easily nowadays, b
by extraduder_ire 3y ago
I don't think the tech is so much lost, as it's not worth it to use anymore. A complete replica of an apollo mission could be stood up pretty easily nowadays, but would probably be too expensive/unsafe to be palatable.
- clnq 3y agoA lot of the institutional memory is lost if the tech isn’t used. Imagine you’re a new starter at NASA on a new mission to build a new space shuttle. A lot of the people you’d ask for guidance are gone. You would need to figure a lot of it out yourself, except for what’s documented. NASA is not exempt from this, same as any other company that does engineering.